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The LGBTQ Town Hall Was a Sometimes Inspiring Bubble That Totally Missed the Point
October 12, 2019 in Daily Beast
Neil Gorsuch Might Be the Supreme Court’s LGBTQ Rights Savior. But He May Not.
October 08, 2019 in Daily Beast
The Most Explosive Cases the Supreme Court Will Hear This Term, From Abortion to Impeachment
October 07, 2019 in Daily Beast
Conservatives Push ‘Ex-Transgender’ Fantasies
October 05, 2019 in Daily Beast
Stop Seeking
September 24, 2019 in 10% Happier
U.N. Climate Summit Makes Real Progress While Trump Lives in Fantasy
September 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Greta Thunberg Calls Out World Leaders at United Nations: ‘You Are Failing Us’b
September 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump to California: Go Drown
September 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
Just How Good Is the Impossible Burger for You or the Planet
September 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
Why Your Carbon Footprint Is Meaningless
September 16, 2019 in Daily Beast
Climate Activists Don’t Know How to Talk to Christians
September 15, 2019 in Daily Beast
Congress Should Impeach Wilbur Ross, Trump’s Leading Liar
September 10, 2019 in Daily Beast
Where Should I Meditate?
September 05, 2019 in 10% Happier
Europe’s Ridiculous Aid Package Is the Latest in a Long Series of Lies About the Brazilian Fires
August 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
Gay Yoga Guru Johnson Chong Can Help Sort Out Your Karma and Dharma
August 25, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump Talk About ‘Disloyal’ Jews Isn’t Just Anti-Semitic—It’s Anti-American
August 22, 2019 in Daily Beast
Why Trump’s Vile Plan to Rope Israel Into His War With the Squad Will Backfire
August 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
Even Scalia Would Allow Today’s Gun-Control Proposals
August 13, 2019 in Daily Beast
On Forcing the Breath
August 12, 2019 in 10% Happier
What Does “Progress” in Meditation Look Like?
July 23, 2019 in 10% Happier
Trump May Not Be Coming for the Jews, but the Next Trump Will
July 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
How Justice John Paul Stevens Became a Liberal Hero
July 17, 2019 in Daily Beast
How Justice John Paul Stevens Became a Liberal Hero
July 16, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump Lost on the Census, but the Scandal Is Just Getting Started
July 12, 2019 in Daily Beast
A Dead Republican Is More Forthcoming Than Trump Officials
July 11, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Census Tweet Shows the U.S. Government Is Led by a Madman
July 04, 2019 in Daily Beast
These ‘Men in Black’ Think Aliens Made Your iPhone
July 02, 2019 in Daily Beast
In Surprise Census Decision, Supreme Court Finally Calls BS on the Trump Administration
June 27, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Unleashes New Era of Extreme Gerrymandering
June 27, 2019 in Daily Beast
John Roberts Isn’t the Conservative You Thought He Was
June 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
What Does Mindfulness Have to do with Pride Month?
June 25, 2019 in 10% Happier
Marianne Williamson, Longtime Wacko, Is Now a Dangerous Wacko
June 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Time to Tell the Truth About Stonewall—and the Flawed LGBT Activism That Followed
June 22, 2019 in Daily Beast
Talmudic Transgressions: Engaging the Work of Daniel Boyarin
June 21, 2019 in Reading Religion
Supreme Court’s Liberals Join Conservatives to Say 40-Foot Cross Is ‘Secular’
June 20, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Could Ignore Shocking New Evidence Trump Officials Tried to Rig Elections for Whites
June 06, 2019 in Daily Beast
The Epic Fight to Change Anti-LGBT Laws
June 05, 2019 in Daily Beast
Meditation and Climate Change
June 04, 2019 in 10% Happier
Revealed: Memo Shows Trump Officials Trying to Rig Elections for Whites
May 30, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Chips Away at Abortion, This Time With Clarence Thomas Ranting About ‘Eugenics’
May 28, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump and Pence Target Trans Health Care—And Their LGBT Discrimination Plans Don’t End There
May 25, 2019 in Daily Beast
From Alabama to Washington: The Road Map to Roe’s Reversal
May 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
How to Get People to Care About Climate Apocalypse
May 17, 2019 in Daily Beast
Clarence Thomas Just Showed How Supreme Court Would Overturn Roe v. Wade
May 14, 2019 in Daily Beast
A Birthday Contemplation
May 14, 2019 in 10% Happier
Why Conservatives Keep Getting Anti-Semitism Wrong
April 29, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Dumb Subpoena Talk Won’t Doom Him at the Supreme Court
April 25, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Census Case Could Decide the 2024 Election
April 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court to Decide If Anti-LGBT Discrimination Is Already Illegal
April 22, 2019 in Daily Beast
When the World Falls Apart
April 16, 2019 in 10% Happier
Trump Gets Revenge on the ‘Most Liberal Court,’ Helped by McConnell’s Dirty Tricks
April 14, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump Administration Lets Foster Agency Turn Away Catholics and Jews
April 09, 2019 in Daily Beast
The Wisdom of Spring
April 02, 2019 in 10% Happier
Supreme Court Ready to Grant GOP’s Wish to ‘Roll Back the Administrative State’
March 27, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump Wants to Kill Obamacare in Court, But His Effort Will Backfire
March 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Conservatives Ready to Unleash Unchecked Partisan Gerrymandering
March 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
John Judis Says Progressives Should Embrace Nationalism
March 25, 2019 in Daily Beast
What Referendum? Florida GOP Set to Exclude Up to 80% of Felons From Voting
March 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
Ryan Zinke Did Big Coal’s Bidding and Gave Away Public Lands, Insider Reveals
March 13, 2019 in Daily Beast
Don’t Just Sit There: An Introduction to Walking Meditation
March 13, 2019 in 10% Happier
Are Progressive Critics Missing the Point on Former Prosecutors Harris and Klobuchar?
March 12, 2019 in Daily Beast
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say…
March 05, 2019 in 10% Happier
Supreme Court Could Bury Separation of Church and State Under a Maryland Cross
February 27, 2019 in Daily Beast
United Methodist Denomination Votes to Expel LGBT Pastors and Pro-LGBT Churches
February 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
Everybody Is Suing Trump Over the Wall. Who Can Actually Win?
February 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
The First Battle of the ‘Green New Deal’ Is the New York Pipeline Fight
February 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Relaxation is Not Enough
February 21, 2019 in 10% Happier
Clarence Thomas Would Roll Back Freedom of the Press
February 19, 2019 in Daily Beast
It’s Up to Chief Justice John Roberts to Stop Trump’s Border Wall
February 15, 2019 in Daily Beast
Kavanaugh Just Showed How He’d Roll Back Abortion — Without Overturning Roe v. Wade
February 08, 2019 in Daily Beast
Super Bowl LIII Was Good for the Jews
February 04, 2019 in Daily Beast
Anti-BDS Bill Isn’t About Boycotting Israel, It’s About Splitting the Democratic Party
February 01, 2019 in Daily Beast
Meditation is Marie Kondo for your Mind
January 31, 2019 in 10% Happier
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Destroying These Americans’ Lives, Two Years On
January 26, 2019 in Daily Beast
Why Chick-fil-A Still Hurts: Queer Trauma in the Age of Trump
January 23, 2019 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Accepts Trump’s Word That Trans Troops Are Threat to National Security
January 22, 2019 in Daily Beast
Vampires!
January 17, 2019 in 10% Happier
Trump’s Plan to Weaponize the Census Just Got Killed
January 15, 2019 in Daily Beast
Beyond Mueller: What to Watch for During William Barr’s Confirmation Hearing
January 15, 2019 in Daily Beast
Trump Attacked LGBT Rights in 2018, and He’s Far From Done
December 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
How to Actually Keep Your Resolution to Meditate
December 27, 2018 in 10% Happier
Bigots, Bloggers Liars: The Top-Ten Worst Judges Trump Has Put on the Bench
December 25, 2018 in Daily Beast
Obamacare Isn’t Dead. Three Reasons the Texas Case Will Be Overturned
December 17, 2018 in Daily Beast
Ryan Zinke’s Disregard for the Environment Was the Real Scandal
December 16, 2018 in Daily Beast
Actually Having a Happy Holiday
December 13, 2018 in 10% Happier
William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Wanted Government to ‘Restrain Sexual Immorality’
December 09, 2018 in Daily Beast
North Carolina Republicans Fight Imaginary Voter Fraud While GOP Steals Real Election
December 07, 2018 in Daily Beast
Republican Sore Losers Are Stripping the Winners of Their Power
December 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
Queering Martin Buber: Harry Hay’s Erotic Dialogical
December 01, 2018 in Shofar
Quiet, Please
November 29, 2018 in 10% Happier
Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Trump. It’s a Warning Shot About Mueller.
November 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving
November 21, 2018 in 10% Happier
Thomas Farr Devised Ways to Keep Black People From Voting. Mitch McConnell Wants to Make Him a Judge.
November 19, 2018 in Daily Beast
New Email: Trump Administration ‘Debates’ Weaponizing Census to Aid ICE
November 19, 2018 in Daily Beast
Who is the “Witness”?
November 14, 2018 in 10% Happier
Miriam Adelson Helped Drive the American Jewish Establishment Off the Rails. No Wonder Trump Is Honoring Her.
November 12, 2018 in Daily Beast
Remembering Bernie Glassman – a Zen Mensch
November 05, 2018 in Forward
Holding Trump Accountable for Pittsburgh Isn’t Politicizing the Attack: It’s Sanity
November 01, 2018 in Daily Beast
Be a Mindful Voter
November 01, 2018 in 10% Happier
North Dakota’s Racist Voter ID Law Is Already Backfiring
November 01, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Visits Site of the Deadliest Attack on Jews in U.S. History, Says Nothing and Takes No Responsibility
October 30, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Stunt Panders to Zealots
October 30, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Tone-Deaf Israeli Reactions to the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
October 29, 2018 in Daily Beast
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Is a Moment of Reckoning for American Jews
October 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trick-or-Treating in Your Mind
October 25, 2018 in 10% Happier
The Anti-Vaxxer Disease Is Now a Republican Epidemic
October 24, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Splits the Difference on Censusgate Scandal
October 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Wilbur Ross Lied to Congress About the GOP’s Plot to Rig the Census. This Should Be a National Scandal.
October 18, 2018 in Daily Beast
Tech Sanity, Part Two: Mindful Speech Online
October 18, 2018 in 10% Happier
The Donald 1, Stormy 0
October 15, 2018 in Daily Beast
Republicans Have a Secret Weapon in the Midterms: Voter Suppression
October 12, 2018 in Daily Beast
Kavanaugh and Supreme Court to Planet: Drop Dead
October 09, 2018 in Daily Beast
Kavanaugh Doesn’t Belong on the Supreme Court, But It Will Survive Him
October 05, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Right Thinks Kavanaugh’s Toxic Masculinity Is Just ‘Being a Man’
October 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
How to Survive the News
October 04, 2018 in 10% Happier
Are you a Zoë or a Zelda?
September 27, 2018 in 10% Happier
Ed Whelan, Judge Kavanaugh’s Defender, Just Committed Defamation
September 21, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Wisdom of Autumn
September 20, 2018 in 10% Happier
You Can’t Beat the Critic
September 13, 2018 in 10% Happier
Newly Released Emails Show Brett Kavanaugh May Have Perjured Himself at Least Four Times
September 07, 2018 in Daily Beast
Leahy Sets ‘Memogate’ Trap for Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
September 06, 2018 in Daily Beast
Right Now, It’s Like This
September 06, 2018 in 10% Happier
If Brett Kavanaugh Wins, the Supreme Court Loses
September 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
Donald Trump Isn’t the Victim of a Witch-Hunt. He’s Leading It.
September 02, 2018 in Daily Beast
Making Boredom Your Friend
August 30, 2018 in 10% Happier
Trump’s New Coal Plan Will Kill People, According to the Trump Administration
August 21, 2018 in Daily Beast
Catching Doubt Before It Catches You
August 16, 2018 in 10% Happier
There Are Painful Problems in the Vetting of Brett Kavanaugh
August 14, 2018 in Daily Beast
Summer Reading for Saner Minds
August 09, 2018 in 10% Happier
Tech Sanity #1 : Mindful Phoning
July 19, 2018 in 10% Happier
Stop Saying Trump Committed ‘Treason.’ You’re Playing Into His Hands.
July 17, 2018 in Daily Beast
Viral Video Gives Chilling Glimpse into the Right’s Anti-Trans Campaign
July 13, 2018 in Daily Beast
Brett Kavanaugh in 1998: Presidents Must Obey Subpoenas
July 12, 2018 in Daily Beast
What’s the Difference Between Meditation and Mindfulness?
July 12, 2018 in 10% Happier
Just Last Year, Brett Kavanaugh Suggested Roe v. Wade Was Wrongly Decided
July 11, 2018 in Daily Beast
Brett Kavanaugh’s Environmental Record Looks Like Scott Pruitt’s
July 11, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
July 09, 2018 in Daily Beast
Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court Pick, Is Probably the End of Abortion Rights and Same-Sex Marriage
July 09, 2018 in Daily Beast
How to Meditate in Summertime
July 05, 2018 in 10% Happier
Buddhism’s LGBT history
July 02, 2018 in Tricycle
SCOTUS Roulette: Everyone on Trump’s Long ‘Shortlist’ to Succeed Anthony Kennedy Is Way to the Right
June 28, 2018 in Daily Beast
With Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Gone, Abortion and LGBT Rights Are Next
June 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Just Nuked the Union Movement
June 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Ignores Trump’s Words, Upholds ‘Muslim Ban’
June 26, 2018 in Daily Beast
Alito and Sotomayor Slug It Out Over Discrimination Against Latino Voters
June 25, 2018 in Daily Beast
John Roberts Sides With Supreme Court’s Liberals to Save Your Digital Privacy
June 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Locks Up Immigrant Kids, but Not Bankers or Polluters
June 21, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Allows GOP’s Extreme Gerrymandering to Stand
June 18, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Supreme Court Just Let Ohio Commit a Massive Purge of Its Voters
June 11, 2018 in Daily Beast
If Trump Won’t Proclaim Pride Month, Let’s Proclaim LGBT Rage Month Instead
June 06, 2018 in Daily Beast
Never Mind Masterpiece Cakeshop—Worry About Sessions and Trump
June 05, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Gay Baker. It’s Not a Loss for LGBT Equality.
June 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump’s ‘Forced Separation’ of Migrant Families Is Both Illegal and Immoral
May 31, 2018 in Daily Beast
Why Han Solo is the Most Goyish Star Wars Hero
May 29, 2018 in Forward
he NFL Can Punish Kneeling Players Because It’s a Private Corporation. Let’s Start Taxing It Like One.
May 23, 2018 in Daily Beast
Philip Roth Turned the Sentence Into an Art Form
May 23, 2018 in Daily Beast
To LGBT Catholics, Pope Francis’ ‘God Made You This Way’ is a Revolution
May 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Tony Perkins Just Got a Global License to Spread His Anti-LGBT Hate
May 16, 2018 in Daily Beast
Justices Thomas and Gorsuch Just Hinted They Would End Privacy as We Know It
May 15, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Harvey Milk Nobody Knew
May 14, 2018 in Moment
Supreme Court Kills Ban on Sports Betting. Are Trump’s Immigration Rules Next?
May 14, 2018 in Daily Beast
Is the Decentralized “New Power” of Peer-Led Social Movements a Blessing or a Curse?
May 05, 2018 in Daily Beast
Scott Pruitt Doesn’t Care About Scandals Because He’s on a Mission from God
May 02, 2018 in Daily Beast
Paul Ryan vs. the House Chaplain Is Really Ayn Rand vs. Pope Francis
May 01, 2018 in Daily Beast
Thank You for Burning Man, Larry Harvey
April 29, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court to Decide if Travel Ban Is Really a Muslim Ban
April 25, 2018 in Daily Beast
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Intergenerational Trauma
April 22, 2018 in Forward
Justice Neil Gorsuch Gives Immigrants Big Win Against Trump’s Deportation Machine
April 17, 2018 in Daily Beast
Chart: This Is What Happens If Trump Fires Mueller
April 12, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Judicial Pick Promoted Idea Birth Control Gets Women Killed
April 12, 2018 in Daily Beast
Four Reasons Snowy Springs Don’t Disprove Global Warming
April 06, 2018 in Daily Beast
Too Crooked to Fail: Why Scott Pruitt Still Has His Job (for Now)
April 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Administration Creates an Office of Discrimination
March 28, 2018 in Daily Beast
2020 Census Citizenship Question Is All About Voter Suppression
March 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
Stormy Daniels’ Legal Strategy Suggests She Has Photos of Donald Trump
March 26, 2018 in Daily Beast
Oil Companies Admit Climate Change Is Real, Say Don’t Blame Us
March 23, 2018 in Daily Beast
Forced Anal Exams of Suspected Gay Men Are Banned in Kenya
March 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Could CIA Nominee Gina Haspel Be Prosecuted for War Crimes?
March 19, 2018 in Daily Beast
A Tale of Two Netanyahus: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’
March 16, 2018 in Daily Beast
What Does the Bible Teach About Transgender People?
March 03, 2018 in Daily Beast
How the Justice System Fails Immigrants
March 01, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Loses DACA Challenge at Supreme Court, Rule of Law Wins
February 26, 2018 in Daily Beast
The NRA Has an Antisemitism Problem
February 23, 2018 in Forward
The Florida gunman was clearly antisemitic – but not only antisemitic
February 20, 2018 in The Jewish Chronicle
This Anti-Islam, Anti-Vaccine, Born-Again Christian Candidate Is a Democrat
February 15, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Budget Cut for HIV/AIDS Would Kill 300,000 People Per Year, Report Says
February 13, 2018 in Daily Beast
Pennsylvania’s Baby Trump Wants to Impeach Judges He Doesn’t Like
February 06, 2018 in Daily Beast
Kathleen Hartnett White, Trump’s Environment Pick: Fossil Fuels Ended Slavery, CO2 Is Good for You
January 31, 2018 in Daily Beast
Jamaica Bans Anti-Gay American Preacher Steven Anderson
January 30, 2018 in Daily Beast
Julius Eastman’s Brilliant Minimalist Music Lives On
January 27, 2018 in Daily Beast
A New Father Reflects on How Conservatives Manipulate Our Fears
January 26, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump’s New Ambassador Sam Brownback Could Weaponize ‘Religious Freedom’ Around the World
January 26, 2018 in Daily Beast
Mike Pence’s Love of a Fictional Israel
January 23, 2018 in Forward
Pennsylvania Court Trashes Gerrymander, Becomes Seventh State to Reject a Republican Map
January 22, 2018 in Daily Beast
Trump Administration Protects Your Right to Discriminate Against Women and LGBT People
January 18, 2018 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court’s Ohio Voter Case Is Based on a Big Lie
January 10, 2018 in Daily Beast
Byron Katie Wants You to Ask if Everything You Know is Wrong
January 05, 2018 in Daily Beast
Doug Jones’ Gay Son Carson Gave Mike Pence the Best Side-Eye of 2018
January 04, 2018 in Daily Beast
Will States Finally Dump the ‘Gay Panic’ and ‘Trans Panic’ Defenses in 2018?
January 02, 2018 in Daily Beast
The Fight for LGBT Equality in 2018 Will Be Fierce
December 28, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Ten Worst Things Scott Pruitt’s EPA Has Already Done
December 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump Has Put a Record Number of Dangerous Men on the Bench
December 21, 2017 in Daily Beast
Be ‘Naughty’: Shop At Stores That Don’t Only Embrace Christmas
December 14, 2017 in Forward
The Climate News Will Have to Get Worse Before It Gets Better
December 13, 2017 in Daily Beast
Could Voter Suppression Swing Alabama’s Senate Race to Roy Moore?
December 11, 2017 in Daily Beast
In Death Leonard Cohen Is in Danger of Becoming Cute
December 09, 2017 in Daily Beast
Masterpiece Cakeshop Isn’t About Religious Freedom—It’s About Sex
December 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
Would the Founding Fathers Have Tracked Your Cell Phone? Why ‘Originalism’ is Bunk
November 28, 2017 in Daily Beast
There’s a Simple Compromise to the Masterpiece Cakeshop Fight. Does Anybody Want It Though?
November 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
Welfare for the Rich: The Carried-Interest Loophole.
November 23, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Judicial Picks Call Trans Children ‘Satan’s Plan,’ Says Gays Are ‘Brainwashing’ Kids, and More
November 16, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Judicial Picks Are Literally Right-Wing Bloggers
November 14, 2017 in Daily Beast
Roy Moore Isn’t a Family Values Hypocrite—He’s an Exemplar
November 13, 2017 in Daily Beast
GOP Voter Suppression Is the Country’s Greatest Scandal
November 08, 2017 in Daily Beast
EPA Director Scott Pruitt Cites Bible for Industry-Led Science Boards and Gets the Bible Exactly Wrong
November 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Trump Administration Is a Libertarian’s Worst Nightmare
October 23, 2017 in Daily Beast
The NFL Is Right, Trump Is Wrong: Dissenting Players Are Patriotic
October 19, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Shocking Extremist Judges
October 17, 2017 in Daily Beast
Stop Kidding Yourself: This Is the Christian Right’s Presidency
October 09, 2017 in Daily Beast
Was Marsha P. Johnson, Transgender Icon and Activist, Murdered by the Mob?
October 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
No, the U.S. Didn’t Vote at the UN for the Death Penalty for Homosexuality
October 04, 2017 in Daily Beast
Mississippi’s Draconian Anti-LGBT Law, the Worst in the Nation, Is Set to Take Effect
October 04, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why Do Conservatives Blame Gun Violence on a ‘Sick World’? The Bible.
October 04, 2017 in Daily Beast
Chief Justice Roberts Calls Proof of Wisconsin Gerrymandering ‘Gobbledygook’
October 03, 2017 in Daily Beast
Gay Rights & Voting Rights: The Biggest Battles Coming to the Supreme Court
October 01, 2017 in Daily Beast
Estate-Tax Repeal Is the Original Phony Populism
September 29, 2017 in Daily Beast
Roy Moore Isn’t Just Anti-Gay, He’s Anti-Democracy
September 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
How To Survive Your Trump-Supporting Relatives This Holiday Season
September 25, 2017 in Forward
While You Weren’t Looking, the Senate Has Been Rubber-Stamping Trump’s Extreme Judicial Picks
September 21, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Secret, Multicultural History of Rosh Hashanah
September 20, 2017 in Daily Beast
Isis Unveiled: The Heretical Gnosticism of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’
September 20, 2017 in Forward
Edie Windsor Was the Face of Marriage Equality
September 12, 2017 in Daily Beast
Conceptualizing Jewish Antinomianism in the Teachings of Jacob Frank
September 08, 2017 in Modern Judaism
Who Killed Dexter Pottinger, Jamaica’s Face of LGBT Pride?
September 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
Joel Osteen’s ‘Prosperity Gospel’ Made Him Houston’s Hurricane Pariah
August 31, 2017 in Daily Beast
Mattis Didn’t Kill the Trans Ban, Trump’s Big Mouth Will
August 30, 2017 in Daily Beast
There’s No Other Way to Say It: Trump’s Arpaio Pardon Is Fascist
August 26, 2017 in Daily Beast
How Much Pristine Wilderness Will Ryan Zinke’s Secret Plan Destroy?
August 25, 2017 in Daily Beast
Are Evangelicals Losing Faith in Trump?
August 24, 2017 in Daily Beast
Big Business Crushes Anti-Trans Campaign in Texas
August 17, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why Trump’s Jewish Backers Love the Alt-Right
August 15, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Phony Populism Rests on One Big Lie
July 31, 2017 in Daily Beast
Does Trump Religious Freedom Pick Sam Brownback Believe in Dominionism?
July 28, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Proposed Transgender Military Ban Aims to Sever the T From LGBT
July 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
Republicans Have a Russia Conspiracy Theory, Too… About Environmentalists
July 24, 2017 in Daily Beast
Pay No Mind To The Fake Ruckus About a Phony Israel Anti-Boycott Law
July 21, 2017 in Daily Beast
Can Virtual Reality Help You Reach Enlightenment?
July 20, 2017 in Tricycle
Trump’s Judicial Pick John Bush Lies to the Senate
July 19, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Must-See Films of Cinema’s Mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky
July 18, 2017 in Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s War on the Unborn
July 15, 2017 in Daily Beast
Jeff Sessions’ Secret Speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Biggest Christian-Right Group You’ve Never Heard Of
July 12, 2017 in Daily Beast
Court Stops Trump & Pruitt From Trashing the Planet—for Now
July 06, 2017 in Daily Beast
Republican Goes to Auschwitz, Gets Holocaust Totally Wrong
July 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
Texas Supreme Court: No Benefits for Gay Couples
June 30, 2017 in Daily Beast
Shanghai Pride Reflects Two Sides of LGBT Life in China
June 28, 2017 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Puts Trump’s Travel Ban on Life Support
June 26, 2017 in Daily Beast
For Neil Gorsuch, the Right-Wing Supreme Court Isn’t Right Wing Enough on Religion
June 26, 2017 in Daily Beast
Working Through the Strong Emotions of Sexual Identity
June 22, 2017 in Tricycle
Shame On You, Jewish Voice For Peace, For Targeting Pro-Israel Gays
June 06, 2017 in Forward
Blame Republican Dogma for Donald Trump Pulling Out of Paris
June 01, 2017 in Daily Beast
How the ‘Trump Effect’ Is Endangering LGBT People Worldwide
May 19, 2017 in Daily Beast
Solange Builds a Cathedral of Vulnerability at the Guggenheim
May 19, 2017 in Daily Beast
Dead Wrong: Roger Ailes’s Destructive Legacy
May 18, 2017 in Forward
How the Blockbuster Art Show Got Small to Get Cool
May 13, 2017 in Daily Beast
Armed And Dangerous: After Firing James Comey, Trump Will Weaponize The FBI
May 09, 2017 in Forward
Trump Fills 10 More Judicial Seats Mitch McConnell Stole From Obama
May 08, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty’ Executive Order Should Scare The Bejesus Out Of Jews
May 04, 2017 in Forward
Trump’s Religious Liberty Executive Order Is a Triumph of Fake News
May 04, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Hero of the People’s Climate March: Wal-Mart?
April 29, 2017 in Daily Beast
Legal Weed’s No. 1 Warrior Puts Down His Pipe
April 28, 2017 in Daily Beast
President Trump’s Tantrums Sink Him in Court Again
April 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why Trump Wants to Shrink National Monuments
April 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
How the War on Science Is Really Fought
April 22, 2017 in Daily Beast
It Doesn’t Matter Whether Sean Spicer Is Incompetent or Malevolent — He’s Dangerous
April 13, 2017 in Forward
Brian Williams’ Other Leonard Cohen Temptations
April 07, 2017 in Forward
Why Gorsuch Would Likely Overrule Landmark LGBT Civil Rights Case
April 05, 2017 in Daily Beast
How to Stop the Senate From Getting Nuked: Confirm Two Justices at Once
April 04, 2017 in Daily Beast
You’ll Need a New Haggadah for Trump’s America
April 03, 2017 in Forward
Democrats Are Right to Oppose Gorsuch, but They’re Doing It All Wrong
April 03, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why You Should Invite President Trump Into Your Meditation Practice
March 30, 2017 in Tricycle
Trump’s America-First Energy Policy is Oil-First
March 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
Can We Be Smarter About Anti-Semitism?
March 23, 2017 in Forward
Could Justice Neil Gorsuch Become Conservatives’ Next Worst Nightmare?
March 23, 2017 in Daily Beast
Neil Gorsuch’s Charm Offensive Confuses Bias With Ideology
March 21, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Art Of The Steal: How Trump’s Plot To Destroy The NEA Robs America
March 20, 2017 in Forward
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Love Letter to Judaism
March 19, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump Puts EPA on Starvation Diet
March 16, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Fifth Precept in the Age of Facebook and Trump
March 07, 2017 in Tricycle
When It’s Moral to Defy the Law
March 06, 2017 in Forward
Trump Administration’s First Supreme Court Win Is Against Trans Kids
March 06, 2017 in Daily Beast
It’s Not Just Jeff Sessions: The FBI Must Investigate Scott Pruitt for Lying to Congress
March 03, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why the FBI and a Special Prosecutor Must Immediately Investigate Jeff Sessions
March 02, 2017 in Daily Beast
Why Anti-Semitic Attacks Are Good For Donald Trump
March 01, 2017 in Forward
‘States’ Rights’ Used to be Conservative – Now It’s Liberal
February 27, 2017 in Daily Beast
President Trump is not an anti-Semite, but he is the head of an anti-Semitic movement
February 22, 2017 in Daily Beast
If Only Donald Trump Had Answered The Jewish Reporter’s Question Like This
February 19, 2017 in Forward
Ninth Circuit Rejects Trumpism and Affirms the Rule of Law in Immigration Ban Case
February 09, 2017 in Daily Beast
President Trump to Judges: Drop Dead
February 08, 2017 in Daily Beast
My word of the year for 2017 is “evidence.”
February 05, 2017 in Forward
A Leaked Copy of Trump’s Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast (parody)
February 01, 2017 in Forward
Is Donald Trump’s Travel Ban Legal? Months of Court Battles Will Decide
January 31, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Is Payoff to the Religious Right
January 31, 2017 in Daily Beast
Andrew Ramer Is One of Our Most Righteous Men
January 29, 2017 in Forward
Science Is the Latest Casualty of Trump’s War on Truth
January 26, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump SCOTUS Finalists Are All Arch Conservatives
January 24, 2017 in Daily Beast
Trump’s EPA Pick Blends Conservative Christianity With Anti-Environmental Activism
January 23, 2017 in Daily Beast
The Supreme Court Will Likely Let Slurs Like ‘Redskins’ Get Trademarks
January 18, 2017 in Daily Beast
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Pick, Could Make Life Hell for LGBT Youth
January 17, 2017 in Daily Beast
Jeff Sessions: ‘Secularists’ Are Unfit for Government
January 12, 2017 in Daily Beast
Transphobia 2.0: New Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’
January 06, 2017 in Daily Beast
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ Explores Faith When God Keeps Quiet
January 05, 2017 in Forward
50 Things To Fear From the Trump Administration
December 30, 2016 in Forward
Why Did Obama Let the UN Criticize Israel? Because It Was the Last Chance to Act Sane
December 27, 2016 in Daily Beast
It’s Going to Be the Warmest Christmas Ever at the North Pole
December 25, 2016 in Daily Beast
Trump’s Extremist Nominee for Israel
December 18, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Might Actually Stand Up for LGBT Rights
December 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Will Ryan Zinke Open Up 265 Million Acres of Land to Drilling and Mining?
December 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Three Reasons for the Electoral College to Reject Trump
December 15, 2016 in Forward
Evangelicals Love Donald Trump Because Jesus Loves Rich People
December 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
Steve Bannon is Not an Anti-Semite; He’s a Nativist Populist
December 10, 2016 in Forward
Scott Pruitt, Trump’s Climate-Denying EPA Pick, Is Worse Than You Think
December 08, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Dharma of Westworld
December 07, 2016 in Tricycle
#Pizzagate Is the ‘Satanic Panic’ of Our Age—but This Time, the President’s Men Believe It
December 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
Pedro Almodóvar Has Made Twenty Films and Is Still Making Great Ones
December 02, 2016 in Daily Beast
Squabble Over Keith Ellison Reveals Dilemma for Democrats on Israel
December 02, 2016 in Daily Beast
How Stars, Christians, and Hackers Could Avoid Climate Disaster Under Trump
November 28, 2016 in Daily Beast
Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education is a Tragedy for All Americans — Especially American Jews
November 28, 2016 in Forward
Retreat or Fight? Both are Right.
November 28, 2016 in Tricycle
Obama Must Save the Courts to Save America From Trump
November 26, 2016 in Daily Beast
In the Age of Trump, Progressives Must Become Sabras
November 22, 2016 in Forward
They Went Low — We Must Go Lower
November 17, 2016 in Forward
FADA: The GOP’s Anti-LGBT, Anti-Women ‘Religious Freedom’ Law on Steroids
November 17, 2016 in Daily Beast
Where Life Is Getting Worse for LGBT People
November 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
25 Reasons Hillary Clinton Lost the Election
November 14, 2016 in Huffington Post
North Dakota Pipeline Protesters Win a Battle but Lose the War
November 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
So Long, Leonard Cohen—Holy Sinner, Poet, Friend
November 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
Queer Theology and Social Transformation Twenty Years after “Jesus ACTED UP”
November 11, 2016 in Theology and Sexuality Journal
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Won’t Just Overturn Gay Marriage and Abortion Cases, It Will Strangle the Federal Government
November 09, 2016 in Daily Beast
How Did Donald Trump Happen?
November 09, 2016 in Forward
Judge Destroys Trump Campaign’s Lawyer Attacking Early Voting
November 08, 2016 in Daily Beast
North Carolina GOP Brags Racist Voter Suppression Is Working—and They’re Right
November 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
Your Ambivalence Toward Hillary Clinton Says More About You Than Her
November 01, 2016 in Forward
Ted Cruz Wants to Block a Supreme Court Justice Forever, Start Constitutional Crisis
October 27, 2016 in Daily Beast
For We Were Strangers in Egypt: The Jewish Imperative for Justice
October 27, 2016 in Huffington Post
How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) as Election Day Approaches
October 26, 2016 in Tricycle
Hey, Curt Schilling, Let Me Tell You About American Jews
October 25, 2016 in Forward
Blaming the Media is Bad for Democracy — On the Right and the Left
October 24, 2016 in Forward
Supreme Court Is a Winning Debate Issue for Donald Trump
October 20, 2016 in Daily Beast
2.6 Million Anti-Semitic Tweets in One Year
October 19, 2016 in Daily Beast
Trump-Pence would be a Disaster for LGBT People
October 19, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Many Sides of Bob Dylan: A Nobel Laureate in Six Songs
October 13, 2016 in Daily Beast
If Donald Trump Sues the New York Times or His Accusers, It Will Be a Suicide Mission
October 13, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Donald Trumps in Our Midst
October 11, 2016 in Forward
There’s Still Time to Replace Donald Trump as the GOP Nominee
October 09, 2016 in Daily Beast
Louisiana Governor Sues His Attorney General Over Anti-Trans Crusade
October 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Orthodox Case for Hillary Clinton
October 06, 2016 in Forward
When Fox News Went From Chinatown to Boro Park in Search of More Stereotypes
October 06, 2016 in Forward
Taylor Mac: Queer Artist-Shaman-Historian of the Century. Make That Two Centuries.
October 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
Mike Pence, Postmodern Evangelical Catholic Conservative
October 03, 2016 in Daily Beast
Shimon Peres: An Optimist Betrayed
September 28, 2016 in Daily Beast
Donald Trump Could Be Indicted for Bribery
September 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Jhana: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing
September 22, 2016 in Tricycle
Leonard Cohen’s New Biblical Dirge Is Among His Best Songs Ever
September 21, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Conclusions We Jump to After the New York Explosion
September 18, 2016 in Forward
The Three Most Unconstitutional Things the Government is Doing Right Now
September 16, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why You Shouldn’t Go To Synagogue On Rosh Hashanah This Year
September 15, 2016 in Forward
Why It’s Impossible for Democrats to Win the House
September 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Mini-Kaepernicks Sit Out the Pledge of Allegiance—but Not All Teachers Know the Law
September 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
From Muslims to Ebola, Conservatives Always Want To Terrify Us About Something
September 06, 2016 in Forward
Are Environmentalists Exploiting Native Americans?
September 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Radical Feminists and Conservative Christians Anti-Trans Alliance
September 04, 2016 in Daily Beast
Mike Pence’s Religious Freedom Law Helps Child Abuser
September 01, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Repersonalization of God: Monism and Theological Polymorphism in Zoharic and Hasidic Imagination
September 01, 2016 in Imagining the Jewish God
The LGBT Activist Who Defeated Belize’s Anti-Sodomy Law
August 31, 2016 in Daily Beast
The ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Is the Most Historic Climate Change Decision Yet
August 30, 2016 in Daily Beast
University of Chicago’s P.C. Crackdown Is About Keeping Right-Wing Donors Happy
August 26, 2016 in Daily Beast
If Israel’s Occupation Is Permanent, Why Isn’t It the Same as Apartheid?
August 24, 2016 in Forward
As Donald Trump Sinks, Republicans May Rethink Merrick Garland
August 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Donald Trump Hates Losers. Judaism Can’t Get Enough of Them.
August 22, 2016 in Forward
Why Liberals Love to Explain Donald Trump to Each Other
August 19, 2016 in Daily Beast
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Would Kill the ‘Right to Remain Silent’ Warning
August 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
Pokemon Go and the End of Religious Experience
August 09, 2016 in Forward
Donald Trump’s Top Funder Is Just Like Him: Tacky and Cruel
August 03, 2016 in Daily Beast
The RNC Can Legally Dump Donald Trump but It Has to Act Fast
August 03, 2016 in Daily Beast
Utah Blames the Weather, Not Homophobia, for Teen Suicide Epidemic
July 29, 2016 in Daily Beast
Courts Crush Voter Suppression Just in Time for Election Day
July 29, 2016 in Daily Beast
Tim Kaine: Least Jewish Democrat Ever
July 28, 2016 in Forward
Will Bill Clinton’s Spiritual Masterpiece Humanize Hillary for America?
July 27, 2016 in Forward
Could Republicans’ Supreme Court Obstructionism Cost them the Senate?
July 27, 2016 in Daily Beast
Inconvenient Truths at the DNC
July 26, 2016 in Forward
Tim Kaine, a Pope Francis Catholic, Defies Religious Stereotypes
July 22, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why President Donald Trump Would Be Israel’s Worst Nightmare
July 21, 2016 in Forward
Mike Pence, Trump’s VP Pick, Is Too Anti-Gay Even for Republicans
July 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Fighting ISIS With Ruthless Progressivism
July 14, 2016 in Forward
What Can Jews and White Allies Do About Police Violence?
July 08, 2016 in Forward
Reclaiming Progressive Patriotism in the Age of Donald Trump
July 04, 2016 in Forward
Why C-FAM, the Catholic Fundamentalists You’ve Never Heard Of, Just Cozied Up to Iran
July 03, 2016 in Daily Beast
Is Donald Trump-Style Populism Just Human Nature?
June 29, 2016 in Forward
Why the Supreme Court – and Justice Kennedy – Saved Abortion Again
June 27, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Progressive Case Against Elizabeth Warren for VP
June 26, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Right Wins as It Loses on Affirmative Action at the Supreme Court
June 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court, Broken by GOP, Couldn’t Decide Crucial Immigration Case
June 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why the Next Supreme Court Is Poised to Roll Back Gun Rights
June 22, 2016 in Daily Beast
Decoding an Anti-Semitic Meme Donald Trump Supporters Took From Anime
June 17, 2016 in Forward
If Omar Mateen Was Gay, the Orlando Attack Was More Homophobic, Not Less
June 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Is Orlando About Islamist Terrorism, Homophobia, Mental Illness or Guns?
June 13, 2016 in Forward
Donald Trump Is a Candidate for White Supremacists — Not Jews
June 10, 2016 in Forward
Republicans Have Crippled the Supreme Court
June 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why I Fell Out of Love with Kabbalah
June 07, 2016 in Forward
The Christian Right Mastermind Behind Citizens United Says It’s Good for Democracy
June 05, 2016 in Daily Beast
From Donald Trump to Europe and Israel, The Rise of the Global Right
May 30, 2016 in Forward
Transgender Panic Isn’t Hate—It’s Ignorance
May 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Strikes Down Blocking Black Jurors—But It Will Keep Happening Anyway
May 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Real Christian Preacher Sex Scandal Is How Many There Are
May 22, 2016 in Daily Beast
On Airport Security, America Should Take a Lesson from Israel
May 21, 2016 in Forward
It’s not just Garland: GOP is Causing a Judicial Emergency
May 16, 2016 in Daily Beast
SCOTUS Dodges Bullet on Obamacare Contraception Controversy
May 16, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why is the Left Silent About Gaza Tunnels?
May 13, 2016 in Forward
Transgender Rights Pits Corporations vs. Conservatives
May 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
How Loretta Lynch Helped the Transgender Movement Come of Age
May 10, 2016 in Daily Beast
Listening to Beyonce as a White American Jew
May 08, 2016 in Forward
Kenya May End Forced Anal Exams of Suspected Gays
May 04, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why the Merrick Garland Fight Could Be Good for Democracy
April 29, 2016 in Daily Beast
A Jewish Tribute to Prince, Holy Unifier of Spirit and Sex
April 22, 2016 in Forward
I’m Seeking Freedom From the Organized Jewish Community This Passover
April 21, 2016 in Forward
Arizona’s Nonpartisan Redistricting Plan Is a Slam Dunk at the Supreme Court
April 20, 2016 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Rules to Let Victims of Iranian Terror Go After $1.75 Billion
April 20, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why This Is An Off Year for New Haggadot — and That’s Not a Bad Thing
April 20, 2016 in Forward
Do Obama’s Immigration Opponents Deserve to Be at the Supreme Court?
April 18, 2016 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court Proposes a Compromise in Obamacare Case
April 14, 2016 in Daily Beast
Anti-LGBT Laws are Losing on Their Own Terms
April 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
Obama’s Nuclear Option for the Supreme Court: Order the Senate Back to Work
April 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
Does Donald Trump Respect Women More Than Pro-Lifers Do?
April 05, 2016 in Forward
In Response to North Carolina’s Law, a Jewish Case for Intersectionality
April 01, 2016 in Forward
Billionaires Try to Buy the Supreme Court
March 29, 2016 in Daily Beast
North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law Is Based on a Total Lie
March 24, 2016 in Daily Beast
Christian Right Says No Means Yes in Supreme Court Obamacare Fight
March 23, 2016 in Daily Beast
Trump Is Not Hitler and He’s Not Haman — He’s Ahasuerus
March 22, 2016 in Forward
AIPAC’s Ovation for Trump is Not at All Surprising
March 22, 2016 in Daily Beast
Senate GOP Must Choose: Merrick Garland, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump
March 18, 2016 in Daily Beast
D.C.’s Dueling Supreme Court Strategies
March 17, 2016 in Daily Beast
Merrick Garland for Supreme Court: A Good Man About to Go Through GOP Hell
March 16, 2016 in Daily Beast
Meet the Evangelical Christians Behind Ted Cruz — They’re Super Jewy
March 14, 2016 in Forward
Israel’s Cult Crackdown Could Snare Yoga, Rabbis, and Meditation
March 13, 2016 in Daily Beast
What Jewish Law Says About Crumbling Indian Point Nuclear Plant
March 11, 2016 in Forward
Dear Caitlyn Jenner, Please Reconsider Your Support of Ted Cruz
March 08, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Harlem Preacher Hooked on Hate
March 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
Likely Supreme Court Nominee Judge Jane Kelly Is a True Moderate
March 04, 2016 in Daily Beast
After Scalia’s Death, Don’t Let GOP Senators Break Their Sacred Oath
March 03, 2016 in Forward
Welcoming Everything You Experience (with Koshin Paley Ellison)
March 01, 2016 in Huffington Post
Will Scalia’s Death Protect Abortion? Deadlock in Texas Case Will Limit Damage
March 01, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Everything, The Nothing, and Justice
March 01, 2016 in Tikkun
Cruz Sugar Daddy Funds a Fake Black GOP Group
February 26, 2016 in Daily Beast
It’s Time for Jews To Pray and Preach About Abortion — Like Christians Do
February 24, 2016 in Forward
20 Years After a Bus Bombing, the Inspiration of Two Lives Unlived
February 24, 2016 in Forward
This Anti-BDS Video Is Pure Hilarity — and Accidental Genius
February 23, 2016 in Forward
Have Obama’s Supreme Court Picks Really Been Silent on Abortion?
February 22, 2016 in Daily Beast
Could Obama Sue Senate Republicans for Stonewalling a Supreme Court Nominee?
February 19, 2016 in Daily Beast
Homosexuality in Modern Judaism
February 17, 2016 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
Dear Bernie Fans, a Vote for Him Is a Vote for Donald Trump
February 16, 2016 in Daily Beast
GOP Cynicism on the Supreme Court Reaches a New Low
February 15, 2016 in Daily Beast
Does Ted Cruz Think He’s the Messiah?
February 14, 2016 in Daily Beast
Why Jewish Republicans Should Look Past Marco Rubio — to Michael Bloomberg
February 08, 2016 in Forward
The Oscars Are Too White — and That’s a Jewish Problem
February 01, 2016 in Forward
What Kind of Jew Is Bernie Sanders?
January 31, 2016 in Daily Beast
Wishing Your Opponents Dead Is Not Good for Israelis or Palestinians
January 25, 2016 in Forward
Why Most Jewish Environmentalism Is Useless — on Tu B’Shvat and Every Other Day
January 22, 2016 in Forward
How Citizens United Gave Us Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
January 20, 2016 in Daily Beast
When the Supreme Court Busts a Union
January 11, 2016 in Daily Beast
How David Bowie Made It OK To Be a Wandering Jewish Misfit
January 11, 2016 in Forward
You Think the World Is Going to Hell in 2016? It’s Actually Getting Better.
January 11, 2016 in Forward
The World’s Leading Kabbalist, Guru to Billionaires, Is Going to Jail
January 07, 2016 in Daily Beast
Alabama Chief Justice Screwed 66 Judges
January 06, 2016 in Daily Beast
Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, And The Power of Prosecutors
January 01, 2016 in Daily Beast
The Brave Woman and Unlikely Heroes Who Brought Down Bill Cosby
December 30, 2015 in Daily Beast
Unlike New Year’s Eve, Judaism Makes Endings Meaningful
December 29, 2015 in Forward
How Jewish Leaders Can Keep the LGBT Debate Honest
December 28, 2015 in Forward
The Religious Right Is Right to Be Scared: Christianity Is Dying in America
December 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
How ‘Star Wars’ Became America’s Talmud [SPOILER ALERT!]
December 23, 2015 in Forward
The Dangers of the Oscar Wilde Defense: How Cosby’s Countersuit Could Backfire
December 17, 2015 in Daily Beast
Affirmative Action May Be Doomed—But It’s Already a Confused Mess
December 13, 2015 in Daily Beast
Moderate Marco? Rubio Wants to Undo Gay Marriage, End Obama’s LGBT Protections
December 10, 2015 in Daily Beast
SCOTUS to Decide Whose Votes Count in Racially Tinged ‘One Person, One Vote’ Case
December 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Saying Kaddish Isn’t Always Profound — and Yet
December 07, 2015 in Forward
Don’t Be Surprised When Student Activists Connect Israel to Campus Rape
December 03, 2015 in Forward
America’s Creepy HIV+ Registry
December 01, 2015 in Daily Beast
Will Pseudoscience Undo Roe v. Wade?
November 30, 2015 in Daily Beast
‘Civil Rights’ Means Anti-Gay for Some Republicans
November 27, 2015 in Daily Beast
Orange County’s Secret Informant Program
November 23, 2015 in Daily Beast
What Does Meditation Have To Do With Fighting ISIS Terror?
November 23, 2015 in Forward
Salt Lake City Elects Gay Mayor, While Utah Exports Anti-Gay Hate
November 22, 2015 in Daily Beast
Yes, We Still Need a Transgender Day of Remembrance (and Resilience)
November 20, 2015 in Daily Beast
Arkansas ‘Spanking Judge’ Traded Lighter Sentences for Sex, Commission Says
November 20, 2015 in Daily Beast
Are Jews Who Support Republicans Duped — Or Deliberately Blind?
November 20, 2015 in Forward
The World Runs on Palm Oil, and That’s Fueling Climate Change
November 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Right Now, It’s Like That
November 12, 2015 in Jewish Publications (other)
Houston’s Anti-LGBT Campaign Was Led by Wingnut Who Would Expel All Gays
November 10, 2015 in Daily Beast
Do Endless Denominational Turf Wars Even Matter Anymore?
November 09, 2015 in Forward
A Lawsuit Cannot Stop the ‘Facebook Intifada.’ You Might.
November 04, 2015 in Forward
Oops: College Names Anti-Rape Program After a Wife-Beating Law
November 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
Evangelical Family Wants Religious Exemption for Teaching Their Kids
November 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
Ben Carson’s Church Believes the U.S. Government Will Team Up With the Antichrist
October 31, 2015 in Daily Beast
How Dennis Hastert Is Like Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky
October 28, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Death Penalty Election: A Louisiana Parish Is Ground Zero for the Capital Punishment Debate
October 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Is Chabad Helping Christian Extremists?
October 26, 2015 in Forward
What Benjamin Netanyahu’s Insane Holocaust Claim Really Means
October 21, 2015 in Daily Beast
Hummus for Peace: As Extremists on Both Sides Escalate, the Israeli/Palestinian Peace Camp Looks Increasingly Impotent
October 20, 2015 in Daily Beast
Who Is To Blame for the Bloodshed and Despair in Israel? Everyone.
October 16, 2015 in Forward
The Intifada Will Be Instagrammed: How Social Media Has Already Enflamed the Latest Israel-Palestine Conflict
October 14, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Ben Carson’s Rant About Gun Control and the Holocaust Is So Dangerous
October 09, 2015 in Forward
Why Saudi Arabia Gets Away With Murder
October 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Judaism is Most Meaningful in Times of Grief
October 03, 2015 in Forward
Let’s Stop Being Embarrassed by Spirituality
October 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
In Praise of Self-Helpless
October 01, 2015 in Reality Sandwich
Pennsylvania’s A.G. Charged With Perjury Again in Her Effort to Smear Opponent
October 01, 2015 in Daily Beast
How Prosecutors Get Away With Cutting Black Jurors
September 28, 2015 in Daily Beast
America’s Newest Saint: Missionary or Mass Murderer?
September 23, 2015 in Daily Beast
Can Pope Francis Unite American Catholics?
September 21, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why This Hasid Was Right To Flip the Bird to Kapparot Protester
September 21, 2015 in Forward
Ann Coulter Defends ‘F–king Jews’ Rant
September 17, 2015 in Daily Beast
Oklahoma’s Governor Won’t Save Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip, but the Public Just Might
September 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Oregon’s Gay Marriage-Abstaining, Hitler Photo-Hanging Judge Is Right
September 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Forgiveness Is Good for You—So Why Can’t You Do It?
September 06, 2015 in Daily Beast
What Is a Jewish Response to Virginia On-Air Gun Killings?
August 29, 2015 in Forward
Progressive Judaism Won’t Win in My Lifetime. And That’s OK.
August 26, 2015 in Forward
Will The Rentboy.Com Bust Be The ‘Stonewall’ of Sex Work?
August 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
Is Josh Duggar the Biggest Family-Values Hypocrite Ever? Not Even Close
August 21, 2015 in Daily Beast
A Tale of Two Trans Americas
August 19, 2015 in Daily Beast
95% of Prosecutors Are White and They Treat Blacks Worse
August 17, 2015 in Daily Beast
It’s Not Just Bad Cops: Prosecutors Run Wild
August 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
It’s Not Just Bad Cops: Prosecutors Run Wild
August 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Mormons: Come Look at Our Secret Stone
August 06, 2015 in Daily Beast
Satanic Panic Strikes After Gory Florida Murders
August 06, 2015 in Daily Beast
Hate Obamacare? Wanna Fire Gays? Create a Fake Church!
August 04, 2015 in Daily Beast
Jerusalem Pride Organizer: “It Was Horrible”
August 03, 2015 in Forward
Why We Should Ignore the Nuts on Both Sides of Iran Deal Debate
August 03, 2015 in Forward
2022 Olympics Will Be Held in a Human Rights Disaster Zone
July 30, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Ultra-Orthodox Hatred Behind the Stabbing at Jerusalem Gay Pride
July 30, 2015 in Forward
Quaaludes, Cosby’s Alleged Rape Drugs of Choice, Were Somehow Even Scarier Than You Think
July 27, 2015 in Daily Beast
To some, Planned Parenthood is immoral; to others, it’s doing God’s work
July 24, 2015 in Religion News Service
Why U. of California Should Dump ‘Three D’ Definition of Anti-Semitism
July 22, 2015 in Forward
Tibetan Monk Dies in Prison, and a Thousand Tibetans Take to the Streets
July 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
What It Was Like to Transition 50 Years Ago
July 11, 2015 in Daily Beast
Joe Biden Takes a Marriage Equality Victory Lap
July 10, 2015 in Daily Beast
Gay Marriage’s #1 Foe Could Get Indicted
July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Biden: Next Fight Is LGBT Discrimination
July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Map: The States Still Fighting Gay Marriage
July 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
4 Reasons Why Sheldon Adelson Anti-BDS Campaign Will Backfire
July 06, 2015 in Forward
Russian City Bans Yoga, Calling It a Cult
July 02, 2015 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court: If It’s Worth It for Corporations, Pollution May Be Okay
June 29, 2015 in Daily Beast
Did The Four Dissenting Justices In Gay Marriage Case Just Suggest Treason?
June 27, 2015 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court On Gay Marriage: It’s Here, And There’s No Going Back
June 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Profoundly Jewish Lesson of the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling
June 26, 2015 in Forward
How Conservatism Kept Obamacare Alive
June 25, 2015 in Daily Beast
Supreme Court: Institutional Racism is Real
June 25, 2015 in Daily Beast
Jewish Response to Dylann Roof? Dump Delusion of ‘Moderate’ GOP
June 23, 2015 in Forward
Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical is even more radical than it appears
June 19, 2015 in Religion News Service
The Jewish Leadership We Need
June 18, 2015 in Forward
The ‘Natural Family’: The Latest Weapon in the Christian Right’s New Global War on Gays
June 14, 2015 in Daily Beast
Is India’s “Hitler Ice Cream” Tasteless? Ignorant? Anti-Semitic? Or all of the above?
June 12, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why North Carolina’s unprecedented exemption is wrong for America
June 12, 2015 in Religion News Service
Is Jewish Reaction to Jerusalem Passport Case Opportunistic — or Delusional?
June 11, 2015 in Forward
New Poll Shows Near-Supermajority on Same-Sex Marriage, Obamacare
June 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Caitlyn Jenner Is an American Triumph — and Good for the Jews
June 08, 2015 in Forward
We’re meditating all wrong, says ‘Buddha from Brooklyn’
June 04, 2015 in Religion News Service
Why Jewish Fundamentalism Is More Brazen Than Ever — and Not Just on the Plane
June 03, 2015 in Forward
This Could Be the Supreme Court’s Busiest Month in History
June 01, 2015 in Daily Beast
SCOTUS: Abercrombie & Fitch Discriminated Against Muslim Job Applicant
June 01, 2015 in Daily Beast
Can Ecstasy Replace Xanax?
May 30, 2015 in Daily Beast
Indiana’s First Church of Pot
May 29, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Nakedness of the Bible
May 24, 2015 in Forward
How Irish Gay Marriage Isn’t Like America’s
May 22, 2015 in Daily Beast
Shavuot, a Holiday To Celebrate Complexity and Nuance
May 20, 2015 in Forward
The Case for Serial’s Adnan Syed Just Got Busted Wide Open
May 19, 2015 in Daily Beast
2015 Is the Hottest Year On Record
May 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
A ‘Fight of the Century’ Over ‘Pinkwashing’ and Israel
May 15, 2015 in Forward
No ghost in the machine: Anti-humanism of ‘Ex Machina’ makes it the post-Christian film of the year
May 08, 2015 in Washington Post
Pope Francis: A Mensch in Rome?
May 01, 2015 in Hadassah
Why Are Two Wealthy Gay Men Hosting a Benefit for Ted Cruz? Israel.
April 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
Why Birthright Next Was Doomed From the Start
April 24, 2015 in Forward
What We Learned from the Global Activists at Quorum: Global LGBT Voices
April 22, 2015 in Forward
American Jews Should Have a New Goal — Recognizing Palestine
April 20, 2015 in Forward
Bobby Jindal Is Doubling Down on RFRA
April 15, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Kardashians Take Jerusalem
April 13, 2015 in Daily Beast
Who’s Against Videotaping Police?
April 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Leading Christian Conservative Wants You to Start Fasting to Stop Gay Marriage
April 07, 2015 in Daily Beast
So, Why Are Bob Dylan’s Videos So Violent Anyway?
April 06, 2015 in Forward
Arkansas Governor’s Surprise Announcement Is Still Not Enough to Protect LGBTs from Discrimination
April 01, 2015 in Daily Beast
It’s not as simple as homophobic thugs vs. civil rights in Indiana
April 01, 2015 in Reuters
Mike Pence Still Isn’t Telling the Truth
March 31, 2015 in Daily Beast
‘Moderate’ Israeli Rabbi Calls Obama a Biblical Mass Murderer
March 31, 2015 in Daily Beast
Where did Indiana law come from? A brief history of religious freedom
March 31, 2015 in Religion News Service
The Texas-Sized Anti-Gay Backlash
March 29, 2015 in Daily Beast
A Haggadah for Just About Every Taste
March 27, 2015 in Forward
Young V. United Parcel Service: For Conservative Reasons, Supreme Court Rules For Pregnant Women—And Against Corporations
March 25, 2015 in Daily Beast
Is anti-Semitism really increasing on US college campuses?
March 24, 2015 in Washington Post
The Backlash to the Anti-Gay Backlash: “Religious Freedom” Bills Fail, As More People See What They’re Really About
March 23, 2015 in Daily Beast
We Might Have Lost — But We Were Right About Bibi
March 19, 2015 in Forward
The GOP’s Sex Trafficking Shell Game: How Laws Against ‘Sex Trafficking’ End Up Hurting Women
March 19, 2015 in Daily Beast
St. Lucian LGBT Activist Kenita Placide’s Resilience in the Face of Tragedy, Murder, Arson, and Violence
March 18, 2015 in Daily Beast
In the grips of Jewish fundamentalism: New memoir sheds light on Hasidic community
March 17, 2015 in Washington Post
Georgia Bill Helps Wife Beaters
March 13, 2015 in Daily Beast
A Great Utah Compromise on LGBT Equality? There’s No Such Thing
March 13, 2015 in Daily Beast
Jeb Bush’s Lurch to the Right
March 12, 2015 in Forward
A Letter to the Israeli Voter
March 10, 2015 in Forward
Florida Quietly Bans the Words ‘Climate Change’ in Environmental Protection Docs
March 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Salmon Vs. Gold Splits Alaska GOP
March 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Bibi Shows How Fear Makes Bad Policy
March 09, 2015 in Forward
Evangelicals & ISIS Feel Fine About the End of the World
March 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Quorum Video: India’s Meena Seshu on listening to LGBTs, Sex Workers, and the Poor
March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Technicality That Could Save Obamacare—and the Supreme Court’s Reputation
March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast
Early Signs Say Obamacare Will Survive
March 04, 2015 in Daily Beast
Cheating Hasids Out of a Future
February 26, 2015 in Forward
Quorum Video: Sochi’s Pro-Gay Protester Speaks Out
February 25, 2015 in Daily Beast
Moderates Want More Marriage—of Any Kind
February 24, 2015 in Daily Beast
Learning To Embrace the Hybrid Jew
February 23, 2015 in Forward
Armageddon for Climate Change Deniers
February 23, 2015 in Daily Beast
America’s Deadly Trans Backlash
February 23, 2015 in Daily Beast
Tennessee Lawmaker: State Constitution Needs More God
February 18, 2015 in Daily Beast
Israel’s Calls for Jews to Flee Europe Aren’t the Answer
February 18, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Right’s Very Own Activist Judge Issues Immigration Ruling Filled With Republican Talking Points
February 17, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Right’s Very Own Activist Judge Issues Immigration Ruling Filled With Republican Talking Points
February 17, 2015 in Daily Beast
Arkansas’ Almost Kosher Anti-Gay Law
February 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Arkansas’ Almost Kosher Anti-Gay Law
February 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Religious Right In Knots Over 50 Shades
February 15, 2015 in Daily Beast
Kansas’s Big Gay Rollback a Sign of Conservative Desperation
February 11, 2015 in Daily Beast
Even in Repressive Contexts, Online Activism Makes LGBT Lives Visible
February 11, 2015 in Daily Beast
‘The Crusades Were Great, Actually!’
February 10, 2015 in Daily Beast
Is Alabama’s Anti-Gay Judge on the Right Side of the Law?
February 09, 2015 in Daily Beast
Can Monks Really Go Into 200-Year Trances?
February 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Thailand’s Transgender People Aren’t Just ‘Ladyboys’ Anymore
February 08, 2015 in Daily Beast
Breaking Down President Obama’s Point About Christian Crusades and Islamic Extremism
February 07, 2015 in Huffington Post
Was Obama right about the Crusades and Islamic extremism?
February 06, 2015 in Washington Post
You’ll Pry This Foie Gras From My Cold, Dead Hands
February 06, 2015 in Daily Beast
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, Tibet: Why Obama’s Meeting With The Dalai Lama Is An Empty Gesture
February 05, 2015 in Daily Beast
How Hasidism Bridges Boundary Between Christianity and Judaism
February 04, 2015 in Forward
Why Megachurch Concept of Sin Is So Dangerous
February 01, 2015 in Forward
A Minyan of Masculinities: German and Zionist Constructions of the Jewish Man
February 01, 2015 in H-Net Reviews
My Big Fat Anti-Gay Wedding Cake: When Haters Cry Discrimination
January 26, 2015 in Daily Beast
It’s Time for the Jewish Megachurch
January 25, 2015 in Forward
Right Wing #Fail on ‘Jihadi Hobby Lobby’
January 25, 2015 in Daily Beast
Tibet’s Monks Are Setting Themselves on Fire Again
January 20, 2015 in Daily Beast
Who Would Jesus Torture?
January 18, 2015 in Daily Beast
Gay Marriage Likely Back in the Hands of One Supreme Court Justice
January 16, 2015 in Daily Beast
Russia’s “Trans Driving Ban” Doesn’t Really Target LGBT Community. It Actually Targets the Mentally Ill
January 15, 2015 in Daily Beast
How to Measure What Muslims Really Believe
January 10, 2015 in Daily Beast
How To Respond to Bloody Paris Terror? With Reason — and Rage
January 09, 2015 in Forward
The Back Alley, Low Blow-Ridden Fight to Stop Gay Marriage in Florida Is Finally Over
January 05, 2015 in Daily Beast
The Evangelical Apocalypse Is All Your Fault
January 04, 2015 in Daily Beast
Live-Blogging Jewishly in a Weird Evangelical Christian World
January 01, 2015 in Forward
6 Reasons ‘Pinkwashing’ Israel on Gay Rights Is So Wrong
December 30, 2014 in Forward
How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline
December 28, 2014 in Daily Beast
Enough With the Menorah Selfies Already!
December 22, 2014 in Forward
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban
December 20, 2014 in Daily Beast
Israel Never Would’ve Killed ‘The Interview’ — So Why Did We?
December 19, 2014 in Forward
The Straight Hero of Cameroon’s Gays
December 18, 2014 in Daily Beast
Church Sex Scandals Are Rooted in Theology
December 15, 2014 in Daily Beast
Do LGBTs Owe Christians an Olive Branch? Try The Other Way Around
December 14, 2014 in Daily Beast
Is there a right way to respond to extreme homophobia?
December 11, 2014 in Washington Post
Coming to Terms With Death of the Jewish Mainstream
December 10, 2014 in Forward
How Maurice Tomlinson Was Outed in Jamaica—and Forced Into Exile
December 09, 2014 in Daily Beast
In Florida, ’Tis The Season for Satan
December 07, 2014 in Daily Beast
Sneer and Clothing in Miami: Inside The $3 Billion Woodstock of Contemporary Art
December 06, 2014 in Daily Beast
Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa
December 05, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Laws That Killed Eric Garner
December 03, 2014 in Forward
Dear Evangelicals: You’re Being Had
November 30, 2014 in Daily Beast
Extreme Weather? Blame the End Times
November 28, 2014 in Daily Beast
I Admit It — I’m Binational-Curious
November 25, 2014 in Forward
An Unjust System Cannot Produce Justice
November 25, 2014 in Forward
No Wonder Cosby’s Keeping Quiet: He Could Still Be Prosecuted
November 23, 2014 in Daily Beast
Catholic Church: Religious Freedom Trumps Civil Rights
November 23, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Outrageous Celibacy Requirement for Gay Blood Donors
November 22, 2014 in Daily Beast
Is India’s Fallen ‘God-Man’ So Different From a Megachurch Pastor?
November 21, 2014 in Daily Beast
RFRA Madness: What’s Next for Anti-Democratic ‘Religious Exemptions’
November 16, 2014 in Daily Beast
Gay Marriage Chaos Begins
November 11, 2014 in Daily Beast
Rabbis on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
November 11, 2014 in Forward
It Gets Better—but Mostly if You Live in a Rich, Democratic Country
November 11, 2014 in Daily Beast
Mother’s Little Anti-Psychotic Is Worth $6.9 Billion A Year
November 09, 2014 in Daily Beast
All The Wrong Reasons to Ban Gay Unions
November 07, 2014 in Daily Beast
How ‘Klinghoffer’ Stereotypes Both Sides
October 27, 2014 in Forward
Liberian Pastors Blame Ebola on Gays, The Right Blames Obama
October 26, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Real Enemy of Marital Bliss Are Those Most Opposed to Marriage Equality
October 25, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why AIPAC Is Anti-Israel
October 25, 2014 in Forward
Egypt’s LGBTs Fight Grindr Crackdown
October 18, 2014 in Daily Beast
Is Brooklyn Becoming Unsafe for Gays? It Depends On Which Ones
October 18, 2014 in Daily Beast
Live-Blogging The Rapture and the Demise of Nicolas Cage
October 16, 2014 in Forward
Same-Sex Marriage Wins at SCOTUS
October 06, 2014 in Forward
Supreme Court to Gay-Marriage Foes: Get Lost
October 06, 2014 in Daily Beast
Catholic University’s Harvey Milk Ban Reflects A Church In Transition
October 03, 2014 in Daily Beast
Facebook Apologizes For, but Doesn’t Retract, Discriminatory ‘Real Name’ Policy
October 01, 2014 in Daily Beast
We Are All Pamela Geller
September 29, 2014 in Forward
Is Caring About Climate Change an Essential Part of LGBT Identity?
September 21, 2014 in Daily Beast
Let’s Make Climate Change the New ‘Third Rail’ of American Politics
September 19, 2014 in Forward
Facebook’s ‘Real Name Policy’ Is a Real Drag
September 18, 2014 in Daily Beast
Kazhakstan Crazies Want Gay DNA Tests
September 15, 2014 in Daily Beast
Rick Warren’s Troubling Africa Mission
September 14, 2014 in Daily Beast
As Gaza Recedes in the Rear View Mirror
September 13, 2014 in Forward
How Ruth Calderon Transforms Israeli Politics — and Talmud
September 12, 2014 in Forward
Judging Ray Rice Instead of Ourselves
September 11, 2014 in Forward
The Hateful Pastor All Too Happy to Be Left Behind When It Comes to Gays
September 06, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Very Jewish Reasons Why Gay Men Loved Joan Rivers
September 05, 2014 in Forward
What Judaism Can Learn From Burning Man
September 04, 2014 in Forward
How Do We Avenge Steven Sotloff’s Death?
September 03, 2014 in Forward
Mickey Mouse Takes Deadmau5 to Court
September 03, 2014 in Daily Beast
Jewish Emphasis on Life Makes Death Rituals a Gift to World
August 26, 2014 in Forward
Thank You, New York Times, for Being Stupid About Burning Man
August 21, 2014 in Huffington Post
Jail Won’t Stop Russia’s Anti-Gay Psycho
August 20, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why Jews Should Care About Ferguson
August 19, 2014 in Forward
‘Unhappy Happiness,’ Or What Rabbi Nachman And Pharell Have in Common
August 16, 2014 in Forward
Getting Serious About the Mystery
August 13, 2014 in Forward
What ‘Dead Poets Society’ Taught Me About Living Deliberately
August 12, 2014 in Forward
Iran’s New Gay Executions
August 12, 2014 in Daily Beast
‘Magic in the Moonlight’ Isn’t That Bad and Neither Is Woody Allen
August 05, 2014 in Forward
The Uganda Ruling is Good For Everyone But Gays
August 01, 2014 in Daily Beast
8 Reasons Menachem Creditor Is Wrong To Be ‘Done Apologizing’ for Israel
July 29, 2014 in Forward
State Department Highlights Actual Oppression Against Christians
July 28, 2014 in Daily Beast
Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Captures the Spirit of the Time
July 24, 2014 in Forward
Dan Markel’s Meaningful Life Ends in Senseless Death
July 21, 2014 in Forward
The Kremlin’s Favorite Anti-Gay Hate Group is Coming to Utah
July 19, 2014 in Daily Beast
5 Ways To Turn Down the Social Media Flame
July 16, 2014 in Forward
What Did You Expect?
July 08, 2014 in Forward
Why Progressives Just Woke Up and Killed ENDA
July 08, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Christian Do-Gooders Secretly Attacking Gays
July 07, 2014 in Daily Beast
Ten Reasons Women Are Losing While Gays Keep Winning
July 06, 2014 in Daily Beast
Reb Zalman, the Prophet of Both-And
July 03, 2014 in Forward
Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision puts faith in compromise
June 30, 2014 in Reuters
Gay Rights & Religious Freedom: Can We Find Common Ground?
June 30, 2014 in Moment
Why Hobby Lobby Will Be Bad for Conservatives
June 30, 2014 in Daily Beast
At the United Nations, It’s Human Rights, Putin-Style
June 26, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why I’m a Liberal — and I Hate the Nanny State
June 24, 2014 in Forward
Death of the Jewish Left
June 23, 2014 in Forward
How We Know the Bible Was Written by Human Hands
June 22, 2014 in Forward
How the LGBT Experience Will Transform the Practice of Mindfulness
June 17, 2014 in Huffington Post
Obama Takes Gay Rights Into His Own Hands
June 16, 2014 in Daily Beast
Right-Wing Activists: Yep, ‘Religious Freedom’ Protects Discrimination Against Jews
June 14, 2014 in Daily Beast
Southern Baptist Convention: Trans People Don’t Exist
June 12, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why Simon Greer Firing Means Much More Than Another Jill Abramson #Pushy Affair
June 11, 2014 in Forward
Eric Cantor Killed By Monster He Helped Create
June 11, 2014 in Forward
Include Me Out of This Jewish Community
June 10, 2014 in Forward
Homophobia in Russia Is Taking a Kafkaesque Turn
June 09, 2014 in Daily Beast
233 Reasons Why Bob Dylan Is Right To Detest His Fans
June 03, 2014 in Forward
The U.N.’s Next President Is a Gay-Hating Friend of Uganda’s Corrupt Dictator
June 03, 2014 in Daily Beast
Kirk Cameron Changes His Tune on Same-Sex Marriage
May 28, 2014 in Daily Beast
Were Christians Right About Gay Marriage All Along?
May 27, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why Do Jews Meditate? It’s All in the Worrying!
May 26, 2014 in Forward
I Am 1 Billionth ‘Anti-Semite’
May 20, 2014 in Forward
Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable?
May 20, 2014 in Daily Beast
Americans Celebrating Our LGBT Victories Need To Be More Cognizant That Elsewhere, Repression Is Winning
May 17, 2014 in Daily Beast
Embracing the Irrationality of Circumcision and Kashrut
May 12, 2014 in Forward
Reb Zalman’s December Song
April 23, 2014 in Forward
Brunei Returns to the Stoning Age
April 22, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican Congressmen
April 19, 2014 in Daily Beast
When Jesus Died at Auschwitz
April 17, 2014 in Forward
Lars Von Trier’s ‘Nymph()maniac’ Is Uncomfortable But Thought-Provoking
April 14, 2014 in Forward
4 Lessons for Jews From the Overland Park Rampage
April 14, 2014 in Forward
Why Abbas Was Right to Blink
April 08, 2014 in Forward
The Core Mormon Teaching the LDS Church Didn’t Jettison
April 07, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Year of Magical Thinking
April 05, 2014 in Forward
All The 2014 Haggadah Info You’ll Ever Need
April 03, 2014 in Forward
Delaware’s Affluenza Case Affects Justice, Too
April 01, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why Africa’s Turning Anti-Gay
March 31, 2014 in Daily Beast
For a Keystone XL Pipeline Grand Bargain
March 29, 2014 in Forward
Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies
March 27, 2014 in Religion Dispatches
Contraception Looks Like a Loser at the Supreme Court
March 25, 2014 in Daily Beast
Why corporations don’t deserve religious freedom
March 24, 2014 in Reuters
Bernie Madoff, Our Convenient Scapegoat
March 24, 2014 in Forward
Do Corporations Believe in God? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Case Has the Answer
March 22, 2014 in Daily Beast
Fred Phelps, Friend of the Gays
March 20, 2014 in Daily Beast
Only One Way To Change Hillel: Leave
March 17, 2014 in Forward
How Anti-Gay Will Mississippi’s ‘New’ Religious Freedom Bill Be?
March 11, 2014 in Daily Beast
The Surprising Jewish Flavor of Hayao Miyazaki, King of Japanese Animation
March 06, 2014 in Forward
5 Reasons You Should Talk to BDS Supporters
March 04, 2014 in Forward
Hobby Lobby Discriminates in the Name of Religion With Help from Orthodox Outliers
March 03, 2014 in Forward
The Perils of Hope (Shma)
March 01, 2014 in Jewish Publications (other)
Why Some Freedom of Religion Claims Are Morally Bogus
February 27, 2014 in On Faith
Hating the Law for Christian Reasons: The Religious Roots of American Antinomianism
February 27, 2014 in Jews and the Law
Will Arizona Go the Anti-Gay Way of Uganda?
February 25, 2014 in Forward
Putin’s Post-Sochi LGBT Crackdown
February 24, 2014 in Daily Beast
Jesus’ Advice to the ‘Turn the Gays Away’ Crowd: Religious Liberty Does Not Mean Discrimination
February 24, 2014 in Huffington Post
Call It Sochifreude
February 19, 2014 in Forward
Why Woody Allen’s Thing for Younger Women Doesn’t Make Him a Pedophile
February 10, 2014 in Forward
Why Climate Change Denial Is Biggest Conservative Lie of All
February 08, 2014 in Forward
What’s More American Than Bob Dylan — and Super Bowl Car Ad?
February 04, 2014 in Forward
Why Jews Should Tune In to the Mindfulness Revolution
February 03, 2014 in Forward
Philip Glass Is Getting Older — for Better or Worse
February 01, 2014 in Forward
There’s a Good Reason for ‘Singling Out’ Israel
January 25, 2014 in Forward
Are Social Conservatives Finally Growing Up?
January 16, 2014 in Forward
Climate Change is a Sin—Here’s How to Repent For It
January 15, 2014 in Religion Dispatches
Judging Menachem Stark’s Jewish Life — Not Just His Death
January 06, 2014 in Forward
David Cooper, Father of BuJu
January 02, 2014 in Forward
Have We Reached the End of Traditional Religion?
December 31, 2013 in Forward
Obamacare ‘Pajama Boy’ Controversy Wrapped in Anti-Semitism
December 28, 2013 in Forward
Holiday Season Underlines Shifts in Judaism as Self-Definition Fades
December 24, 2013 in Forward
Adam Levine Is Sexy and Jewish. So What?
December 23, 2013 in Forward
How Should We Feel About the Pew Study of #JewishAmerica?
December 23, 2013 in Forward
Yes, Marina Abramović Is Selling Out—and That’s OK
December 18, 2013 in The Atlantic
In Pursuing Bob Dylan for Hate Speech, Croatian Group Denies Holocaust
December 05, 2013 in Forward
‘Hunger Games’ Is a Tea Party Dystopia
December 05, 2013 in Daily Beast
What Does the ASA Boycott Mean? They Don’t Know.
December 04, 2013 in Daily Beast
Bar Mitzvah Boy Talks Gay Marriage
December 02, 2013 in Forward
On Thanksgiving, Confronting Our Country’s Bitter Past of Slavery
November 27, 2013 in Forward
New Study: Three-Quarters of American Giving Goes to Religion
November 25, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Seeking Harmony and Finding Transcendence at The Cloisters
November 15, 2013 in Forward
Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure
November 14, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Occupy the Dharma: How Contemplative Practice Will Save the World
November 14, 2013 in Tikkun
The Shocking Scandal at the Heart of American Zen
November 14, 2013 in Daily Beast
Answer This Question: Why Be Jewish?
November 11, 2013 in Forward
George W. Bush Embraces Jews for Jesus
November 08, 2013 in Forward
Zen and the Art of the BuJu
November 08, 2013 in Forward
Meditation isn’t a “hippie indulgence”
November 03, 2013 in Salon
Lou Reed: The Artist in Leather
October 27, 2013 in Huffington Post
Beat Poet Finally Found What He Was Looking For
October 23, 2013 in Forward
Once Again, the Anti-Defamation League Defames
October 22, 2013 in Daily Beast
Meditation is Not Religion or Spirituality—It’s Technology
October 22, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Was Goenka a Guru?
October 14, 2013 in Huffington Post
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Pragmatic Kingmaker
October 08, 2013 in Daily Beast
Bagels Aren’t Enough
October 07, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
We’re Here, We’re Pro-Israel/Pro-Peace, We’re Used to It. Now What?
September 30, 2013 in Daily Beast
S.N. Goenka: The Man who Taught the World to Meditate
September 30, 2013 in Huffington Post
Can Catholic Church Thrive Without ‘Obsession’ on Gays and Abortion?
September 30, 2013 in Forward
Bob Dylan Rescues His Worst Album
September 18, 2013 in Forward
Kabbalah and Queer Theology: Resources & Reservations
September 09, 2013 in Theology & Sexuality Journal
Chelsea Manning’s Identity Crisis Is One Jews Should Relate To
September 04, 2013 in Forward
Lead-Footed Suburbanites vs. Park Slope Stroller Moms: A Modest Proposal
August 22, 2013 in Huffington Post
Meditation: Natural or Unnatural?
August 12, 2013 in Huffington Post
The Loophole in Russia’s Anti-Gay Law
August 07, 2013 in Huffington Post
Forgetting the Mideast Conflict Is Easy in Israel — and That’s a Big Problem
August 04, 2013 in Forward
Argle-Bargle: What Justice Scalia Still Doesn’t Get About Marriage
July 07, 2013 in Huffington Post
Mixed Blessing of Supreme Court’s Decisions on Gay Marriage and Voting Rights
June 27, 2013 in Forward
The Other Gay Rights Case: Why Today’s Obscure Supreme Court Decision Is More Important Than We Think
June 20, 2013 in Huffington Post
The Creeping Jewish Fundamentalism in Our Midst
May 27, 2013 in Forward
Jewish Lessons of Murder in Greenwich Village
May 20, 2013 in Forward
Mission Not Accomplished: The Anti-Gay Murder of Mark Carson Should Be a Wake-Up Call
May 19, 2013 in Huffington Post
Darkness Dancing: Why Peter Rauhofer Mattered
May 10, 2013 in Huffington Post
“To the Wonder”: Terrence Malick’s Mystical Lens
April 19, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Confusing Israel’s Doves and Hawks
April 16, 2013 in Forward
Was Justin Bieber Right About Anne Frank?
April 15, 2013 in Forward
SCOTUS, civil religious court
April 04, 2013 in Salon
An Often-Overlooked Clause in the Constitution Points the Way to Same-Sex Marriage
April 02, 2013 in Daily Beast
Op-ed: Guess What — We’re the Oppressors (Advocate)
April 01, 2013 in LGBT Publications
Marriage Equality: A Civil Religious Moment
March 28, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
The ‘Religious Liberty’ Bullies and Their Fight Against LGBT Equality
March 18, 2013 in Daily Beast
The Movement To Rebrand Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’
March 18, 2013 in Forward
Redefining Religious Liberty: The Covert Campaign Against Civil Rights
March 18, 2013 in Political Research Associates
Making Sense of the Holiday Season’s Onslaught of New Haggadahs
March 14, 2013 in Forward
The Non-Essential(ist) Harry Hay
March 01, 2013 in Gay and Lesbian Review
Let’s Get Real: Wisdom 2.0 Wraps Up
February 25, 2013 in Tricycle
The Dharma is Out of Control
February 23, 2013 in Tricycle
Who’s Afraid of Wisdom?
February 22, 2013 in Tricycle
Wisdom 2.0 Opens With a Challenge
February 22, 2013 in Tricycle
The Wrong Way To Fight BDS
February 21, 2013 in Forward
Get Ready for Jewish iSpirituality
February 06, 2013 in Forward
Gay Men’s Interpretation of the Bible
February 05, 2013 in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception
Build on Gay Marriage Victories
January 08, 2013 in Forward
Watching as Israel’s Election Approaches
January 04, 2013 in Forward
“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale
January 02, 2013 in Religion Dispatches
Why I’m Grateful for 2012, The Rapture, and other Millennial Delusions
December 18, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Michaelson Answers Dershowitz
December 06, 2012 in Forward
Reparative Therapy is Quackery, Rabbis Agree—But that Doesn’t Mean it’s Okay to Be Gay
December 02, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Orthodox Rabbis Say Gay ‘Cure’ Therapy Doesn’t Work
December 01, 2012 in Daily Beast
Why I Supported The Palestine U.N. Vote
November 30, 2012 in Daily Beast
In Praise of New Age Judaism
November 20, 2012 in Forward
Who Wins This No-Win Situation?
November 19, 2012 in Daily Beast
What’s next for gay marriage: Conservatism
November 10, 2012 in Salon
Bad Night for the Jewish Echo Chamber
November 07, 2012 in Forward
Genesis 23:1-25:18: The Life Of Sarah?
November 06, 2012 in Huffington Post
A response to a stiff-necked playwright
November 05, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)
Stop Moping! The Marathon Is Exactly What New York Needs Right Now
November 03, 2012 in Daily Beast
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage: 4 Points for Undecided Voters to Consider
October 31, 2012 in Huffington Post
Jewish Romney Voters Are Fig Leaf for Christian Right
October 24, 2012 in Forward
Obama Won by Talking Like a Republican
October 22, 2012 in Forward
DOMA Ruling Seems Good For Gays, But Supreme Court May Not Buy It
October 18, 2012 in Daily Beast
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to Lie About Climate Change Has Worked
October 17, 2012 in Daily Beast
Why Big Bird Matters
October 11, 2012 in Huffington Post
The Way I Was
October 08, 2012 in Forward
Bob Dylan’s Best and Worst Album Covers
October 02, 2012 in Forward
An Elegy for Brooklyn, in the Shadow of Barclays
October 02, 2012 in Huffington Post
Nan Hayworth Is Not a New York Republican, and the Tea Party Is in the Details
September 26, 2012 in Huffington Post
LGBT New Yorkers Need to Hold Our Enemies Accountable (And Let’s Start With Greg Ball)
September 26, 2012 in Huffington Post
Blue Jays Suspend Yunel Escobar for Gay Slur, But That’s Not the Real Issue
September 20, 2012 in Daily Beast
Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness
September 18, 2012 in Anthologies
Why Burning Man Didn’t Suck This Year… and What We Can Learn From It
September 12, 2012 in Huffington Post
Beyond ‘Letting Go’
September 09, 2012 in Huffington Post
The Gospel According to Feuding Academics
September 05, 2012 in Forward
Review of James Kugel, ‘In the Valley of the Shadow’
September 03, 2012 in Hadassah
Ecce Homo (Review)
September 01, 2012 in Gay and Lesbian Review
When Jesus Healed a Same-Sex Partner
August 07, 2012 in Huffington Post
When the Right Is Right About the Left
July 30, 2012 in Forward
Apocalypse Now and Then: Our Global Death Wish
July 28, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Olympic Committee Opposes Memorial for Israeli Athletes Killed in Munich
July 20, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Meditation is Very Relaxing, Says New York Times
June 20, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Media Ignores Rash of Assaults on Transgender Women
June 06, 2012 in Daily Beast
DOMA Ruling Is Test for Conservative Federalists
May 31, 2012 in Daily Beast
Bible Codes a Lie That Won’t Die
May 31, 2012 in Forward
How to Tell Love From Hate: The Bible vs. Pastor Charles Worley
May 24, 2012 in Huffington Post
30-Day Sentence for Dharun Ravi in Rutgers Spying Case Is Right
May 21, 2012 in Daily Beast
Traditional Marriage: One Man, Many Women, Some Girls, Some Slaves
May 16, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
“Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders” by Joy Ladin
May 16, 2012 in Lambda Literary
Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Announcement: A Victory for Religion
May 09, 2012 in Huffington Post
Man in Search of God
May 08, 2012 in Forward
Could an African LGBT Activist Win the Nobel Peace Prize?
May 05, 2012 in Daily Beast
Dan Savage Was Wrong, And So Was Amanda Marcotte At Slate
May 03, 2012 in Daily Beast
Is Dan Savage the Gay Santorum?
May 02, 2012 in Daily Beast
Israeli Conservative Movement Will Ordain Gay Rabbis
April 30, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
How is a “Spiritual Person” Supposed to Act?
April 19, 2012 in Reality Sandwich
Transgender, Scientologist, “Cult Hero”
April 19, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
‘Abomination’ is Hate Speech (Shma)
April 10, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)
An Anthem for LGBT Youth
April 08, 2012 in Forward
Faeries in America
April 07, 2012 in Gay and Lesbian Review
Why Are American Jews So Liberal?
April 03, 2012 in Forward
J Street’s Blind Spot Is Class
April 01, 2012 in Forward
‘Tis the Season for New Haggadot
March 23, 2012 in Forward
“Get Out!” Says Christian-Supremacist Pastor. Does Rick Santorum Agree?
March 20, 2012 in Daily Beast
An Act of LGBT Censorship in Seattle
March 20, 2012 in Forward
Can You Be a Zionist If No One Thinks You Are?
March 19, 2012 in Daily Beast
Jury Did the Right Thing in Ravi Case
March 16, 2012 in Daily Beast
Why the Story of Adam and Eve Is Right and Kirk Cameron Is Wrong: The Religious Value of Love
March 12, 2012 in Huffington Post
Is It Fair to Punish Dharun Ravi Because Tyler Clementi Died?
March 12, 2012 in Newsweek
You Can’t Pray the Gay Away
February 24, 2012 in Forward
All Your Dead Mormons Are Belong To Us
February 23, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Why Didn’t Burning Man’s Organizers See This Coming? Because They Couldn’t See Themselves
February 23, 2012 in Huffington Post
Revealing the Jewish roots of the Christian Bible
February 13, 2012 in Jewish Publications (other)
Jewish Roots of the New Testament
February 12, 2012 in Forward
It’s Schadenfreude Time: Santorum Messes Up the Republican Party
February 08, 2012 in Huffington Post
Why Climate Change is Bad for the Jews
February 07, 2012 in Zeek
Alleged Child Molesting Pastor Wrapped in Torah Scrolls
February 02, 2012 in Forward
Conservatives Have Jewish Values, Too: Cantor, Adelson and Kristol May Be Wrong, But Not Un-Jewish
January 30, 2012 in Forward
A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?
January 26, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
The Polyamory Trap
January 26, 2012 in Salon
‘Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life’ by Vivian Gornick
January 24, 2012 in Lambda Literary
In LGBT Debates, Discomfort Is Part of the Point
January 17, 2012 in Huffington Post
The Good Liberal Fear of a Yoga Planet: The rationalist prejudice against spirituality
January 17, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Why Rick Santorum Can’t Just Say “God Doesn’t Want You To Be Gay”: Gay rights and the collapse of pseudo-secularism
January 09, 2012 in Religion Dispatches
Fighting Back Against Fundamentalism
January 06, 2012 in Forward
Santorum’s Homophobia Problem
January 04, 2012 in Huffington Post
Why Does the Heckler Get a Veto?
December 20, 2011 in Forward
Matisyahu Shaves His Beard
December 13, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Religious Belief or Mental Illness?: Jeff Nichols’ new film, “Take Shelter,” asks the question
December 10, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Airport Security and Non-Self
November 30, 2011 in Huffington Post
Why an Orthodox Anti-Gay Declaration is Actually Good for the Gays
November 30, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Pinkwashing Is Not Black and White
November 29, 2011 in Forward
Who Would Jesus Bully?
November 25, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
The Gift of the Gay Rights Debate
November 14, 2011 in Tikkun
God, gay dichotomy must end
November 11, 2011 in Times Union
A 20th-century solution to 21st-century problems
November 06, 2011 in Jerusalem Post
How Gay Rights Teaches Us Torah: Our Faith Grows Because Text Offers Room to Interpret Issues
November 04, 2011 in Forward
Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay
November 01, 2011 in USA Today Magazine
#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?
October 28, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street
October 27, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
The Religious Duty to Come Out
October 11, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Queer Repentance: On Not Surrendering to a Text, to Guilt, or to Habit
October 05, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Honest Work: On Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury
October 05, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Six Things Liberal Critics Don’t Understand About the Occupy Wall Street Protests
October 05, 2011 in Huffington Post
Getting Over the Judging God — A Yom Kippur Reflection
October 04, 2011 in Huffington Post
“Belief in God” is not a Jewish Value
September 30, 2011 in Moment
Does Religion Justify the Murder of Troy Davis?
September 21, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt’ by Jon-Jon Goulian
September 14, 2011 in Lambda Literary
Don’t Call the Rabbi, Make Your Own Rituals
September 08, 2011 in Forward
Perils of the Day of Judgment
September 07, 2011 in Hadassah
Burning Man in the Age of Rick Perry: Revelation, Pluralism, and Moral Imperative
September 01, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Is Life But a Dream?
August 08, 2011 in Reality Sandwich
Why Liberals Should Be Outraged by the Tim DeChristopher Sentence
July 27, 2011 in Huffington Post
Integration isn’t Everything
July 15, 2011 in Reality Sandwich
The Trouble With Harry (Potter): Religious Conservatives Do Have Something to Fear
July 14, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
‘Dendrophile’ by Justin Vivian Bond
July 04, 2011 in Lambda Literary
The Battle Beneath the Battle: Do Gay People Exist?
June 27, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
A Modest Proposal on Circumcision
June 27, 2011 in Forward
What’s Between New York’s State Senate and Marriage Equality? About Fifteen Words
June 20, 2011 in Huffington Post
An Open Letter to State Senator Greg Ball About Marriage Equality and Religion
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Whatever Works: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality: A Conversation with Mark Jordan
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Tree of Life, Book of Job
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Judaism 2030: Visions of a Jewish Tomorrow
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Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?
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Why 300 (Mostly Straight) Religious Leaders Are Gathering in Washington to Support LGBT Equality
May 22, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Mississippi Floods: Punishment From an Angry God?
May 18, 2011 in Forward
Boredom: A Gift for the Soul?
May 16, 2011 in Huffington Post
Prime Time for Eprhyme
May 02, 2011 in Forward
After Passover, The Exodus To True Spiritual Freedom Continues
April 25, 2011 in Huffington Post
Who are the Real Sodomites?
April 15, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Four Sons as Characters from Glee
April 12, 2011 in Forward
Nonduality, Neuroscience, and Postmodernism: The Dream of the Self
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For John Zorn, It’s Jewish Music as Bitches’ Brew
April 08, 2011 in Forward
Why is your Haggadah Different from Others?
April 05, 2011 in Forward
Not for the Sake of Heaven: Debased Discourse in a New Gilded Age
April 01, 2011 in Forward
Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau
March 16, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
‘All is One’ in Traffic Jams
March 15, 2011 in Huffington Post
The Path to Enlightenment: Sometimes Assertion, Sometimes Surrender
March 03, 2011 in Huffington Post
Queering Kabbalistic Gender Dimorphism
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“Coming to Life” by Joy Ladin
February 14, 2011 in Lambda Literary
The Tea Party are Sodomites
February 14, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Gay and Orthodox: And Cleaving Strongly to Both
February 08, 2011 in Forward
Should Gays and Lesbians Argue Scripture? A Dialogue
January 18, 2011 in Religion Dispatches
Hasidism and “Nature”: Negation and Affirmation
January 17, 2011 in Zeek
The Problem of Spiritual Experience: Is Mysticism in the Mind of the Beholder?
January 14, 2011 in Forward
Why the Holidays Suck – and What We Can Do About It
December 26, 2010 in Huffington Post
Geoengineering and Climate Management: From Marginality to Inevitablity
December 14, 2010 in Tulsa Law Review
Don’t Trust Your Gut
December 03, 2010 in Forward
Sex and Civilization: The Body as Battleground
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Pass the John Tyner Bill: Get Government Off Our Backs and Out of Our Buttocks
November 16, 2010 in Huffington Post
A Life After Death Double-Feature: Eastwood’s Hereafter and Noe’s Enter the Void
November 08, 2010 in Religion Dispatches
What Would it Mean to Turn Back the Clock to 1960? A Tax Hike on the Super-Rich
November 02, 2010 in Huffington Post
Rethinking Egalitarianism
October 27, 2010 in Forward
Responding to Gay Suicides: What Teens Can Do
October 18, 2010 in Huffington Post
DIY: Fighting homophobic bullying in the Jewish world
October 15, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
Defining God Upward
October 01, 2010 in Hadassah
Story is the Peril of Service
October 01, 2010 in Zeek
The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York
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Political Consequences of a Judging God: A Yom Kippur Reflection
September 17, 2010 in Religion Dispatches
The Hebrew Goddess: Complexity, Unity, Gender, and Society
September 09, 2010 in Zeek
Meditation and “Drugs”
September 07, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
More than Words: How to Make Yom Kippur Help, not Hinder, the Work of Repentance
September 07, 2010 in Forward
Why it’s good for Jews to Meditate
August 20, 2010 in Zeek
Gay Marriage and ‘Religious Freedom’
August 18, 2010 in Forward
The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark
August 13, 2010 in Religion Dispatches
Simple Truths vs. Esoteric Ones
August 09, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
Values Added: Sex and the Bible
August 02, 2010 in Bloggingheads.tv
Are Corporations Evil?
July 28, 2010 in Forward
The Smile on the Dog: A Conversation on God with Rebecca Goldstein
July 23, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
Perplexed by the Guides? When It Comes to Kabbalah, Some Introductions Are More Illuminating Than Others
July 21, 2010 in Forward
Plovers vs. Crows: Cape Cod’s Moral Dilemma
July 20, 2010 in Mother Nature Network
Ten Reasons Gay Rights is a Religious Issue
July 15, 2010 in Tikkun
Does the Bible Really Call Homosexuality an “Abomination”?
July 01, 2010 in Religion Dispatches
Peoplehood vs. Israel
June 30, 2010 in Forward
Jewish LGBT leaders need to build a movement
June 29, 2010 in CNN
Chanukah in June
June 27, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
A Better Way to Believe in God
June 17, 2010 in Huffington Post
Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World
June 15, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
The Deep Truths are the Simple Ones
June 11, 2010 in Huffington Post
Religion within the Bounds of Reason..and Love
June 02, 2010 in Forward
Meditation on the Run
May 24, 2010 in Huffington Post
Jewish Enlightenment : Neo-Hasidism and Vedanta
May 23, 2010 in Zeek
Memento Mori: Jewish Spirituality and the Sanctification of the World
May 19, 2010 in Forward
Nonduality in Buddhism and Judaism
May 03, 2010 in Reality Sandwich
The Nonduality Dialogues
May 03, 2010 in Zeek
What Religious Arguments Are Really About
April 21, 2010 in Forward
An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 10: The Kabbalah of Inspiration
April 02, 2010 in Huffington Post
Why Is This Night Different? Who’s Asking?
March 17, 2010 in Forward
It’s Complicated: Why Ambivalence is Good for Israel…and American Jews
March 10, 2010 in Forward
An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 9: Can You Ever Have Too Much Love?
March 04, 2010 in Huffington Post
28 Days, 28 Ideas #27: Spiritual Birthright
February 27, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
Call Their Bluff: The Case for Letting Republicans Filibuster
February 22, 2010 in Huffington Post
Un-Righteous Indignation: Anger Management–Kosher Style
February 21, 2010 in Forward
Are People Good At Heart?
February 21, 2010 in Huffington Post
The Gifts of Difference
February 16, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 8: What are the Sefirot?
February 03, 2010 in Huffington Post
An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 7: Use Your Illusion
January 28, 2010 in Huffington Post
LGBTs are in All of Israel — Not Just Tel Aviv
January 15, 2010 in Hadassah
Taking Avatar Seriously: Environmentalisms, Spiritual and Practical
January 13, 2010 in Forward
Not a Guide, but an Example: Paradoxes of Spiritual Writing (JBooks)
January 01, 2010 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Myth of Authenticity
December 23, 2009 in Forward
The Meaning of Avatar: Everything is God (A Response to Ross Douthat and other naysayers of ‘pantheism’)
December 22, 2009 in Huffington Post
How A Nice Jewish Boy Learned To Like Christmas … Because Of Paganism
December 21, 2009 in Huffington Post
‘Religion Is Actually Spirituality’: An Exchange
December 17, 2009 in Forward
Impermanence
December 11, 2009 in Zeek
It’s Not Just Tiger: Monogamous Marriage Is An Anomaly
December 09, 2009 in Huffington Post
Vedanta and Kabbalah: Nonduality East and West
December 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Magen Tzedek: Model of the Jewish Future or Show Without an Audience?
November 18, 2009 in Forward
Reflections of a Jewish Gay Rights Advocate on Visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr, Museum: An Open Letter to Ruben Diaz, Sr., and other Latino and African-American Opponents of Gay Rights
November 15, 2009 in Huffington Post
Spirituality and States: Getting Beyond the Good Stuff
November 10, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Silence is golden — and green
November 09, 2009 in Mother Nature Network
An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 4: Kabbalah As A Spiritual Practice
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Prayer and Nonduality
November 01, 2009 in Tikkun
Beyond Oneness
November 01, 2009 in Zeek
On Fire with Love and Ecstasy
November 01, 2009 in Moment
An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 3: Three Answers To The Ultimate Question
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Religion is Actually Spirituality
October 28, 2009 in Forward
An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself
October 22, 2009 in Huffington Post
Love is Not Blindness
October 21, 2009 in Forward
An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 1: What Is Kabbalah?
October 15, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Gay Generation Gap: Reflections on the National Equality March
October 11, 2009 in Huffington Post
Fetishizing the Trigger
October 08, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Nondual, non-triumphalist view
October 01, 2009 in Tikkun
Will Spirituality Ever Be Serious?
September 29, 2009 in Huffington Post
How I’m Losing My Love for Israel
September 18, 2009 in Forward
Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security
September 11, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Jhanas: Meditative Absorptions
September 11, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Ephryme: Engaged Hip Hop Jew
September 11, 2009 in Forward
The Truth About Burning Man
September 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
Gedaliah in the Eye of the Beholder
September 01, 2009 in Hadassah
In Defense of Spiritual Vulgarity
August 27, 2009 in Zeek
Is Guilt a Good Thing?
August 24, 2009 in Huffington Post
A ‘New Jew’ Goes to Auschwitz
August 14, 2009 in Forward
A Missing Culprit, but Culpability All Around
August 14, 2009 in Forward
It is love that matters, not the sex of one’s beloved”: Leaders of LGBT Jewish Synagogues & Organizations Respond to the Attack in Tel Aviv
August 10, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Emptiness of Anger
July 27, 2009 in Huffington Post
Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
July 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
Eat Your Way to Enlightenment
July 14, 2009 in Huffington Post
Allowing the Yetzer Tov to Win
July 10, 2009 in Forward
How a Dog Taught me the Dharma
July 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
Monotheism and the Spirits of Nature
July 02, 2009 in Zeek
The Perfect Storm is Coming: Why New York’s Legislative Chaos May Be Good News for Marriage Equality
June 23, 2009 in Huffington Post
G-dcast: Parshat Shelach Lecha
June 17, 2009 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Body of Being
June 12, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
The Messy Yard of Tomorrow?
June 09, 2009 in Mother Nature Network
The One Secret to Making the Most of Unwanted Downtime
June 08, 2009 in Huffington Post
Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On
June 03, 2009 in Huffington Post
Why Straight People Go to Gay Synagogues — and What We Can Learn From Them
June 03, 2009 in Forward
The Religious Significance of Homosexuality: Queering God, Torah, and Israel
June 01, 2009 in Anthologies
The Lame Duck in Israel
May 29, 2009 in Jewcy
Why It Matters that Adam Lambert is (Probably) Gay
May 20, 2009 in Huffington Post
Rethinking Jewish Spirituality
May 20, 2009 in Zeek
What It’s Like to Spend Five Months in Silence
May 18, 2009 in Huffington Post
Get the Story: Why We Misunderstand Swine Flu, the Financial Crisis, and other Non-Narrative News
May 04, 2009 in Huffington Post
Do Jews Have a Jesus Problem?
April 29, 2009 in Forward
Peoples of the Blog
April 23, 2009 in Zeek
Susan Boyle, Gay Marriage, and Not Trusting Your Gut
April 20, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Attraction of Irrelevance: Tazria/Metzora
April 20, 2009 in Forward
Shifting from Myth to Function
April 15, 2009 in Forward
Freedom from the Slavery of Passover Seders
April 11, 2009 in Forward
Liberation from Passover
April 10, 2009 in Torah Queeries
Sun Rises on Ancient Ritual
April 07, 2009 in Mother Nature Network
What is the Real World, Anyway
April 06, 2009 in Huffington Post
An Ancient Basis for Tomorrow’s Financial Regulations: Rethinking Usury Law
March 28, 2009 in Huffington Post
The Trouble with Business
March 27, 2009 in Zeek
Transformation of Consciousness as Messianic Age: A Kabbalistic View
March 20, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
It’s a Purim World Out There
March 13, 2009 in Forward
The Dream of the Magician
March 06, 2009 in Zeek
The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
February 27, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 2
February 05, 2009 in Zeek
Environmentalism: Good for the Jews
February 05, 2009 in Forward
Sick Enough for Spirituality
January 30, 2009 in Reality Sandwich
A Jewish Perspective on the Jhanas, part 1
January 29, 2009 in Zeek
One Who Speaks Does Not Know
January 09, 2009 in Forward
Is Life but a Dream
December 22, 2008 in Zeek
The Gifts of Boredom
December 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Seven ideas suggested by empty air
December 15, 2008 in Literary Journals
Coming Out: It’s the Jewish Thing to Do At Hanukkah
December 11, 2008 in Forward
Foreign Thoughts
December 01, 2008 in Literary Journals
Why Ramakrishna Matters
November 28, 2008 in Zeek
Spirituality as Satanism
November 24, 2008 in Zeek
Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils
November 19, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Poets of the Desert and the Sea
November 07, 2008 in Forward
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November 01, 2008 in Anthologies
Too Much Fun
October 13, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Answers in the Seekers’ Language
September 19, 2008 in Forward
Chaos, Law, and God: The Religious Meanings of Homosexuality
September 16, 2008 in Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
God of Judgment, God of Love
September 12, 2008 in Forward
Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
September 09, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
What is the Connection between Monogamy and Monotheism
September 05, 2008 in Maariv
Against Integration
August 15, 2008 in Zeek
Seven Ideas Suggested by Empty Air
August 15, 2008 in Literary Journals
God and Pain
August 04, 2008 in Maariv
The Israeli-American Prime Minister Bids Farewell
July 30, 2008 in Jewcy
You are God in Drag: Eleven Notes Before and After Retreat
July 29, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
In Defense of the Western Wall
July 17, 2008 in Forward
Monogamy and Monotheism
June 30, 2008 in Zeek
Fresh Baked Bread
June 27, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Are there any Jews in Narnia?
June 23, 2008 in Jewcy
Embracing Even the Hatred: A Personal Dharma Journey
June 03, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Is Environmentalism a Jewish Issue?
June 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)
Where the Light Gets in: The Crucible of Summer Camp
May 22, 2008 in Forward
The Gods of Drowning
May 21, 2008 in Jewcy
Intentional Sexuality: Possibilities and Perils
May 19, 2008 in Literary Journals
Israel, Injustice, and Philip Glass’s Call to Arms
May 01, 2008 in Jewcy
Jewish Intelligent Design Proponents are Jewish Uncle Toms
April 20, 2008 in Jewcy
Getting Serious About Love
April 17, 2008 in Forward
Peoplehood: There’s no there, there
April 16, 2008 in Forward
Kabbalah is Over, But It Wasn’t Daphne Merkin Who Killed It
April 15, 2008 in Jewcy
God as a Mask of Pain (Hebrew)
April 04, 2008 in Maariv
Sick Enough for Religion
April 01, 2008 in Zeek
Mixing Heresy and High Fashion
March 31, 2008 in Jewcy
Polytheism and Nonduality
March 21, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
Sexual Hypocrisy is Not a Jewish Value
March 19, 2008 in Jewcy
The Virtues of the Unaffiliated
March 19, 2008 in Forward
Chilluf Chomrim (Hebrew)
March 18, 2008 in Maariv
Anti-Folk Hits The Right Note: Kimya Dawson Breaks Through With ‘Juno’
March 12, 2008 in Forward
The Blues, Prayer, and Unrequited Love
March 01, 2008 in Zeek
The Path Of the Just: Is Mussar the ‘New Kabbalah’?
February 28, 2008 in Forward
Is ‘Cassandra’s Dream’ about Soon Yi?
February 14, 2008 in Jewcy
Why Obama is Good for Israel
February 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)
Polytheism and Nonduality
February 01, 2008 in Zeek
Hot is the New Cool (Shma)
February 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)
People Of the Chapbook: Jewish Poets as Jewish Teachers
January 23, 2008 in Forward
Ayahuasca and Kabbalah
January 15, 2008 in Reality Sandwich
New Psychedelics Are Transforming the Future of Spirituality
January 07, 2008 in Jewcy
A Balancing Meditation: Hesed, Gevurah, Tiferet (BeliefNet)
January 01, 2008 in Jewish Publications (other)
Thinking Green: It’s Not Just a Virtue — It’s Your Jewish Duty
December 24, 2007 in Forward
How I Finally Learned To Stop Worrying and Love (Okay, Like) Christmas
December 19, 2007 in Forward
It’s the Deep Structure, Stupid
December 01, 2007 in Zeek
As Winter Falls, a Time To Learn From the Orthodox
November 28, 2007 in Forward
The Witch of Endor
November 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
A BuJu Responds to Sam Harris
November 01, 2007 in Zeek
Memo to Michael Steinhardt: Duh
October 17, 2007 in Forward
Christopher Hitchens’ Straw Gods
October 15, 2007 in Hadassah
Sometimes God Just Wants to Dance
October 05, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Seasons Going North
October 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
The New Atheism: What’s a Liberal, Spiritual Jew to Do?
September 26, 2007 in Forward
Yom Kippur: A Personal Journey
September 12, 2007 in Forward
How Not To Believe in God
September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Anan Ben-David
September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Gifts of Boredom
September 01, 2007 in Zeek
Jewish Hipster Cool is Dead (Shma)
September 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Conservative Judaism at a Crossroads
August 29, 2007 in Forward
Entering the Gate of Sadness
August 01, 2007 in Zeek
Who’s Your Daddy?: The Bible’s Many Vocies on Homosexuality (Review of Jennings, Jacob’s Wound)
July 18, 2007 in Forward
Portrait of the Artist as a Nice Jewish Boy
July 10, 2007 in Forward
Apocalypse Now: Climate Change and Israel
July 03, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Free Will: The Last Gasp of the Unenlightened Mind
July 01, 2007 in Zeek
Joseph Rabinovitch
July 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
The People’s Bible
June 19, 2007 in Forward
Fasting from a Functional Perspective
June 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Why I Study Sabbateanism
June 01, 2007 in Zeek
Shrine of False Messiah in Turkey May Be Razed
May 18, 2007 in Forward
Judaism and the Culture of Outburst
May 11, 2007 in Forward
No Crystals Needed: Why Meditation is Not Spirituality
May 04, 2007 in Forward
Fantasy and Totalitarianism: On Ministering to Special Cases
May 01, 2007 in Zeek
Baruch Spinoza
May 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
The Other Disappeared
April 27, 2007 in Forward
Leonard Cohen: Poet of the Holy Sinners
April 20, 2007 in Forward
Getting Serious About a Religion of Love
April 01, 2007 in Zeek
Take Back the (Seder) Night
March 30, 2007 in Forward
Boston Rabbinical Program Challenges Denominational Boundaries
March 16, 2007 in Forward
Conservative Judaism: Good for the Gays?
March 01, 2007 in Tikkun
Keep Your Godwrestling, Thanks: The Use and Limits of Jewish Theology
March 01, 2007 in Zeek
Jacob Frank
March 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Where the Borscht Sounds Like the Sea: Another Side of Woody Guthrie
February 09, 2007 in Forward
Spiritual Pioneers See a Different Shade Of Judaism: Green
February 02, 2007 in Forward
Stop Seeking: Paradoxes of the Spiritual Path
February 01, 2007 in Zeek
Into Life: On Parshat Va’era
January 20, 2007 in Torah Queeries
The Graphic (Novel) Side of Israel
January 19, 2007 in Forward
YHVH Means What Is: Integrating Judaism and Buddhism, and Why I Bother
January 01, 2007 in Literary Journals
Sabbetai Tzvi
January 01, 2007 in Jewish Publications (other)
Zeek is not a Gay Magazine (but it is out)
January 01, 2007 in Zeek
Renewing Ecstatic Spirituality to the Beat of a Drum
December 29, 2006 in Forward
Shortbus: Best Gay Movie Ever (White Crane)
December 21, 2006 in LGBT Publications
Gay History in the Making, I Guess
December 07, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
Religion and Insanity
December 01, 2006 in Zeek
The Hidden and the Manifest: A conversation with Rabbi Jill Hammer about Judaism and the senses
November 24, 2006 in Forward
In Jerusalem, Fundamentalism on the March
November 17, 2006 in Forward
Two Lawyers, Three Opinions
November 03, 2006 in Forward
Kashrut and Nonduality
November 01, 2006 in Zeek
Demons, Dybbuks, Ghosts, & Golems: The sinister power of life-force gone awry
October 30, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
Old Labels Feel Stiff for ‘Flexidox’
October 13, 2006 in Forward
Brit Hitvada’ut: A Coming Out Ceremony
October 11, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
Dylan’s Religious Revival: Modern Times and the Timeless
October 06, 2006 in Forward
Yom Kippur and Nonduality
October 01, 2006 in Zeek
Interview, A Conversation With the Bad Boy Rabbi (Niles Goldstein)
September 29, 2006 in Forward
Grassroots Spirituality: As Jews in the Woods Grows, It Weighs Whether to Open Its Doors
August 04, 2006 in Forward
Achieving the Ordinary (Review of Lev Raphael) (JBooks)
August 01, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
Spirituality in a Time of Seriousness
August 01, 2006 in Zeek
A Less Innocent Love: On Parshat Va’etchanan
August 01, 2006 in Torah Queeries
Homelands of the Heart
July 04, 2006 in Jerusalem Post
My Journey to Flexidoxy, or, At Home on the Slippery Slope
July 01, 2006 in Zeek
Fear of Fun
June 01, 2006 in Zeek
Exploring the New Jewish Spiritualities
May 12, 2006 in Forward
The Jewish Goddess: Past and Present
May 05, 2006 in Forward
Shabbat and Meditation: Just Be It
May 01, 2006 in Jewish Publications (other)
It’s the Purity, Stupid: Reading Leviticus in Context- Why “God hates fags” just like God hates shrimp
April 28, 2006 in Torah Queeries
The Freedom of Being
April 01, 2006 in Zeek
Book of Esther gets Novel Makeover
March 10, 2006 in Forward
A Jew and a lawyer are sitting in a bar…
March 03, 2006 in Forward
Flakes- Why ‘spiritual’ people are often so unreliable
March 01, 2006 in Zeek
Rabbi Was a Master of Practical Kabbalah- On Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri z”l
February 03, 2006 in Forward
Friends in High Places: An interview with Congressmen Barney Frank and Gary Ackerman
February 01, 2006 in Zeek
The Unity of Opposites
January 27, 2006 in Forward
Israel’s ‘Mystical City’ Opens Its Doors to Outsiders
January 20, 2006 in Forward
Christmas in Jerusalem: Zionism, Ordinariness, and the Situation
January 01, 2006 in Zeek
Holy Feast, Holy Fast Food, Judaism and Righteous Ambivalence
December 23, 2005 in Forward
Jewish Paganism: Oxymoron or Innovation?
December 09, 2005 in Forward
Hitler and God: The Perils of Pantheism
December 01, 2005 in Zeek
In Praise of the Pound of Flesh: Legalism, Multiculturalism, and the Problem of the Soul
December 01, 2005 in Journal of Law in Society
Disabuse Community of Intolerance
November 11, 2005 in Forward
Fresh Baked Bread: Ideas about the thing, and the thing itself
November 01, 2005 in Zeek
Fragments of a Lost Jewish World
October 28, 2005 in Forward
Sukkot: From humble to inspired
October 14, 2005 in Forward
It’s the Deity, Stupid: Learning from the Kabbalah Center
October 11, 2005 in Jerusalem Post
Is happiness worth losing your memory?
October 04, 2005 in Slate
A Presence in the Wood
October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)
Priests by Birth: The Strange Essentialism of Adin Steinsaltz’s We Jews (JBooks)
October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)
Kabbalah: The Whistle Stop Tour (JBooks)
October 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)
Fetishizing the Trigger: How spirituality turns to fundamentalism
October 01, 2005 in Zeek
A Little off the Top: The Controversy About Circumcision
September 02, 2005 in Forward
Guilt and Groundedness: Religion, guilt, and the geology of the self
September 01, 2005 in Zeek
Standing Again With Lilith; The Long and Winding Roads of Jewish Feminism
July 22, 2005 in Forward
Male and Female Created He Them
July 01, 2005 in Forward
Judaism, Meditation, and the B-Word
June 10, 2005 in Forward
Does Mysticism Prove the Existence of God? Mysticism, nonduality, and what we can learn through meditation
June 01, 2005 in Zeek
Star Wars, George Bush, Judaism, and the Penis- From Baal and Asherah to Neo-cons and the Sith
June 01, 2005 in Zeek
A Theory of Everything- Understanding God, Love… and Franz Rosenzweig
May 13, 2005 in Forward
An Awakened Soul- The Lives and Lessons of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom
May 13, 2005 in Forward
When Dialogue Harms- How responsible political discourse can sometimes hurt the self
May 01, 2005 in Zeek
Hedgehogs, foxes, and dilettantes
April 01, 2005 in Zeek
Eating Meditation for Passover
April 01, 2005 in Jewish Publications (other)
Shakey: An Essay on Anger- Working with anger on the contemplative path
March 01, 2005 in Zeek
He Wandered the Earth as an Exiled Man: A review of Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One
February 04, 2005 in Forward
I Still Believe that People are Good at Heart: Spirituality and human nature
February 01, 2005 in Zeek
The Knowing: A mystical poem
January 01, 2005 in Zeek
Three Jewish Books on Sadness: A rabbi, a widow, and a therapist address the demon of sadness
December 01, 2004 in Zeek
The Buddha from Brooklyn: A lama talks about enlightenment… with a Yiddish twang
November 26, 2004 in Forward
The Holy Fool: How One Writer Conveys Spiritual Truths That Are Seriously Funny
November 19, 2004 in Forward
Setting Yiddishkeit to Mambo, Metal, and Surf: Jewish novelty records, in 2004
November 05, 2004 in Forward
Am I Religious? Religion, spirituality, and living as if it mattered
November 05, 2004 in Zeek
Mysticism and Mortgages: New Books Blend Kabbalah, Psychotherapy and Self-Help
October 22, 2004 in Forward
Deconstructing Zell Miller: A close reading of right-wing political rhetoric
October 01, 2004 in Zeek
Mystery Sells: What the Kabbalah Centre Actually Teaches
September 03, 2004 in Forward
How can you be gay and Jewish?
September 01, 2004 in Zeek
The Spiritual Foundations of Bushism
August 01, 2004 in Zeek
Two new books join the effort to create a “neo-Hasidic bookshelf.”
July 16, 2004 in Forward
Hasidism and Homoeroticism
July 01, 2004 in Zeek
Lecha Dodi
June 21, 2004 in Jewish Publications (other)
Notes on Camp: How a Summer Choice for Kids Became a Linchpin of Jewish Continuity
June 11, 2004 in Forward
How I Finally Learned to Accept Christ in My Heart
June 01, 2004 in Zeek
Secrets of the Rebbetzin: Hadassah Gross’s Penetrating Insights Into Kabbalah, Love and Yearning
May 14, 2004 in Forward
Secrets of the Rebbetzin
May 14, 2004 in Forward
It’s All in the Mix: A DJ Spins Eclectic Combinations
May 07, 2004 in Forward
Wrestling with Steve Greenberg
May 01, 2004 in Zeek
It Is Not Good for Man To Be Alone: New Books Wrestle With Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
April 30, 2004 in Forward
Practicing What He Preaches, Reggae Singer Reveals His Soul
April 09, 2004 in Forward
Life During Wartime, or, Freedom and the Ordinary
April 01, 2004 in Zeek
Revealing Ourselves Through Our Masks
March 05, 2004 in Forward
Passion and Violence
March 01, 2004 in Zeek
For This Scholar, the Body Is the Window to the Soul
February 27, 2004 in Forward
You are God in Drag: Notes from and after retreat
February 01, 2004 in Zeek
A Watershed Year for Gays of Faith
January 02, 2004 in Forward
Thinking despite Doubt and Feeling despite Truth
January 01, 2004 in Zeek
A Festival of Rebellion Reminds Us What Matters Most
December 19, 2003 in Forward
A Prayer Group of Their Own: Kol Zimrah and Other Do-It-Yourself Minyans Unite the Independent-Minded
November 14, 2003 in Forward
Energy
November 01, 2003 in Zeek
From Aleph to Tough: A Poet Who Does Not Merely Refer to Existing Tradition, but “Makes It New”
October 17, 2003 in Zeek
High Holy Days: Rabbi Cowan Speaks Out About Meditation, Action and New Job
September 26, 2003 in Forward
What is Burning Man?
September 01, 2003 in Zeek
You Keep on Knockin’ But You Can’t Come In What ‘the Sixties’ Wrought: Religion Is a Counterculture
August 29, 2003 in Forward
The Queer Guy at the Strip Club
August 01, 2003 in Zeek
An Orthodox Poet tackles God and Sex
June 20, 2003 in Forward
On Listening to the Kulturkampf: How America Overruled Bowers v. Hardwick, even though Romer v. Evans didn’t
April 01, 2000 in Duke Law Journal
Geoengineering: A Climate Change Manhattan Project
January 01, 1998 in Stanford Environmental Law Journal
Rethinking Regulatory Reform: Toxics, Politics, and Ethics
May 01, 1996 in Yale Law Journal